Three win Nobel for super fluids

Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said today. The trio was awarded the prize for their work in quantum physics concerning superconductivity and superfluidity.

Superconducting material is used, as an example, in magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, and can gave deeper insight into the ways in which matter behaves in its lowest and most ordered state, the Royal Swedish Academy said in its citation.

Abrikosov, 75, a Russian and American citizen; Ginzburg, 87, a Russian; and Leggett, 65, a British and American citizen, worked to improve knowledge of superconductivity and superfluidity.