Monday 26 March 2012

Happy birthday Tony Leggett

Happy birthday Tony Leggett! Leggett was born on March 26, 1938 in London, he had almost finished his bachelor's degree in classics and philosophy at Oxford when he decided to switch to physics. About 15 years later, he did the work that would earn him the 2003 Nobel physics prize: on the phase diagram of superfluid helium-3: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/leggett.html

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