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Physicist is econd Briton in two days to win Nobel prize.(News)
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The Independent (London, England)
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October 8, 2003| Author:
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Byline: Steve Connor
A BRITISH-BORN scientist has jointly won this year's Nobel prize in physics for research into the arcane area of superfluids - when matter behaves in its lowest and most ordered state.
Anthony Leggett, 65, who has British-American citizenship, shares the pounds 800,000 prize with two Russian physicists who have worked in the equally arcane world of superconductivity - when electrical conductors lose resistance.
Alexei Abrikosov, 75, who carried out his research in Moscow but is now at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, and Vitaly ...
