Sir Anthony Leggett obituary: theoretical physicist

Tony Leggett lecturing on Schrödinger's cat at the Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, circa 1985.

Anthony Leggett not only made a name for himself as a pioneering academic physicist but in 2003 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his research on superfluidity and the theory of superfluidity. However, he had left science at school as something “incomprehensible” – especially physics, which “knows in one ear and out the … Read more