Mastodawn

Sir Anthony (Tony) Leggett, who died this past week, was truly a gentleman and a scholar. He was kind and humble, not always the attributes of a brilliant scientist. After first receiving a classics degree at Oxford, he went for a second degree in physics.

His Nobel winning work was for extraordinarily sophisticated analysis of NMR data proving that recently observed superfluidity in the isotope helium-3 represented novel pairing of the atoms into so called "spin triplets" - helium-3 ...

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Ofelia

@Drdind “Beautifully said. Anthony James Leggett truly seemed to embody both intellectual brilliance and genuine humility. His work on superfluid Helium-3 superfluidity changed how we understand quantum matter, and his character appears to have been just as remarkable as his science.”