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Nobel-winning physicist Tony Leggett remembered

Original: Remembering Nobel laureate and Grainger physicist Anthony J. ‘Tony’ Leggett

Anthony J. 'Tony' Leggett, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and longtime professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering, has died. The university announced his passing, and colleagues and the physics community are paying tribute to his pioneering work on superfluidity and his decades of teaching and mentorship.

Why now: The death of a Nobel laureate and beloved physicist has prompted tributes from the scientific community.

Anthony J. LeggettUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGrainger College of Engineering

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