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Sir Anthony Leggett obituary: theoretical physicist

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Tony Leggett lecturing on Schrödinger's cat at the Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, circa 1985.

Anthony Leggett not only made a name for himself as a pioneering academic physicist but in 2003 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his research on superfluidity and the theory of superfluidity. However, he had left science at school as something “incomprehensible” – especially physics, which “knows in one ear and out the … Read more

Stuart Penkett obituary

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Stuart Penkett obituary

Stuart Penkett’s discovery of the chemical processes that cause acid rain changed our understanding of atmospheric pollution and what was needed to deal with it. Penkett, who has died aged 87, and his colleagues at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) in Harwell, Berkshire, published a landmark paper in 1979 in the journal Atmospheric Environment, … Read more