Sir Anthony Leggett obituary

Physicist who won a Nobel prize for his work on superfluids and superconductors at Sussex University in the 1970s The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role in propelling Anthony Leggett towards his 2003 Nobel prize for physics. Leggett, who was to become a world-leading researcher in the field of low-temperature physics, had, in 1959, just graduated in greats, a combination of classical literature, ancient history and p...

By Robin McKie