| Anthony J. Leggett  Born: 26-Mar-1938
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Particle physicist, explored superfluidity Father: (teacher)
Mother: (teacher)
Sister: Clare
Sister: Judith
Brother: Terence (d.)
Brother: Paul (d.)
Wife: Haruko Kinase (m. 1972)
Daughter: Asako (b. 1978)
High School: College of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon
High School: Beaumont College, London (a Jesuit school)
University: BA, Baliol College, Oxford University
University: BS Physics, Merton College, Oxford University
University: PhD Pysics, Oxford University (1964)
Professor: University of Sussex (1967-83)
Professor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 2003
Wolf Prize in Physics 2002 (with Bertrand I. Halperin)
Knight of the British Empire 2004
National Academy of Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Obama for America
Naturalized US Citizen 2002
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