Leggett, Anthony James
Keynote Speaker
Theoretical Physicist
Professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sir Anthony J. Leggett, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, has been a faculty member at Illinois since 1983. He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics. He is a leading proponent of the concept of macroscopic quantum coherence extrapolating quantum mechanics to a macroscopic level. His pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign member of Russian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.). He was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 "for services to physics."
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