 Professor Anthony Leggett received the Nobel Prize for Physics from the King of Sweden in Stockholm last month.
Professor Leggett was awarded a share in the 2003 prize for his research at Sussex in the early 1970s on the theory of superfluids.
 Professor Leggett opened his award lecture by calling it "a great honour and privilege" to receive a Nobel Prize and saying he was particularly proud to share it with Alexei Abrikosov Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg, "whom I've always looked up to as two giants in the related field of superconductivity".
Superconductivity is the flow of electricity without resistance at low temperatures. Professor Leggett's prize recognizes his work on the liquid version, superfluidity.
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