Anthony J. Leggett

2003 Nobel Prize Laureate

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date:10:00am, Aug.17, 2010

Venue：Conference Hall 104，Science Building

Abstract：I present a very personal account of the way in which,in the approximately 12 months between July 1972 and July 1973,we came to a theoretical understanding of the puzzling experimental data on what we now know as superfluid 3 He. I particularly emphasize the concept of "spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry" which turned out to be a key ingredient in understanding the NMR behavior.

Biography：Anthony J. Leggett 教授于1938 年生于英国伦敦，相继于英国牛津百里奥(Balliol)学院和牛津默顿(Merton)学院获得文学和物理学学士学位，后在D. ter Haar 指导下获得理论物理博士学位。继在美国Urbana，日本京都等地从事博士后研究之后，于1967 年加入英国苏赛克斯(Sussex）大学教授行列，并先后于1971 年和1978年晋身副教授(Reader)和正教授。自1983 年至现在，他成为美国伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香潘恩分校的 John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Professor。2003 因在超流理论上的开创性工作获诺贝尔物理学奖（与V. L. Ginzburg 及A. A. Abrikosov分享）。

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