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 Sir Anthony James Leggett is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He set directions for research in the quantum physics of macroscopic dissipative systems and use of condensed systems to test the foundations of quantum mechanics.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK), the American Physical Society, and American Institute of Physics, and Life Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). He was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 "for services to physics." He holds dual US/UK citizenship.
His current research focuses on cuprate superconductivity, conceptual issues in the foundations of quantum mechanics, and superfluidity in highly degenerate atomic gases
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 Kerson Huang, Emeritus Professor of Physics, at M.I.T., was born in 1928 in Nanning, China. He received his S.B. (1950) and Ph.D. (1953) at MIT. After a brief stint at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, he joined the Physics Faculty at MIT in 1957. His research in Theoretical Physics included works on Bose-Eistein Condensation and Quantum Field Theory.
He retired from active teaching in 1999. Nowadays, he devotes his time to research on Biophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the author of a number of textbooks in Physics. These include: Statistical Mechanics (John Wiley, New York, 1965, 2nd ed. 1987), Quarks, Leptons, and Guage Fields (World Scientific, Singapore 1982,, 2nd ed. 1992), Quantum Field Theory: from Operators to Path Integrals (John Wiley, New York, 1998), Introduction to Statistical Physics (Taylor and Francis, 2001). Other works include an English translation of the I Ching (I Ching, The Oracle, World Scientific, Singapore 1984; I Ching, Workman Publishing, New York, 1987), A translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Chinese classical quantrains (Rubaiyat, Chi Ming, Taipei, Taiwan, 1965; Reissued by Bookman Publishing, Taipei, 1986).
Professor Huang is currently Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU.
 Ngee Pong Chang, Professor of Physics at City College of New York, CUNY. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University, specializing in Theoretical High-Energy Physics. Professor Chang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science.
He is the founding President of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association (OCPA), and has served as chair of the Committee on International Scientific Affairs of APS. He is also Founder and Faculty Advisor of the Chinese Alumni Group, CCNY Association; and Vice-Chair of Board of the Asian American Higher Education Council.
Professor Chang is currently appointed as Nanyang Professor at Nanyang Technological University and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU. |