Stockholm, Oct 07: Two American citizens and a Russian won the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work in how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Alexei A. Abrikosov, 75, Anthony J. Leggett, 65, and Vitaly L. Ginzburg, 87 for their work concerning two phenomena called superconductivity and superfluidity.

Abrikosov is a Russian and American citizen based at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois; Ginzburg, 87, is a Russian based at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow; and Leggett, 65, is a British and American citizen based at the University of Illinois.
Superconducting material is used, as an example, to produce powerful magnetic fields for the standard body scanning technique called magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, the academy said in its citation.


The $1.3 million prize money will be shared equally among the three winners. Reached by phone at the Lebedev Physical Institute, Ginzburg told The Associated Press he had long given up hope of ever receiving a Nobel Prize.
Bureau Report