Anthony James Leggett: Explorer of quantum mechanics, from fluids and solids to the macroscopic world

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 39, September 2026. Tony Leggett (1938–2026) was one of the great theoretical physicists of his generation, specializing in the quantum mechanics of fluids and solids. Rightly recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the experiments discovering ...

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