Sir Anthony Leggett

Nobel Prize-winner Sir Anthony Leggett(left) was one of the speakers at a Chemistry Variety Show, held at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington on Friday 11 February for an audience of 1400 enthusiastic high school students. He was in Wellington as one of the delegates at the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, held at the same venue in February.

Our Changing World was there to record Sir Anthony Leggett's speech in which he described his career path and the fortuitous events that lead to him winning a Nobel Prize. Richard Blaikie, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute kicked off the proceedings.

Speakers at the Chemistry Variety Show, from left to right: Richard Blaikie, Sir Anthony Leggett, John Watt and Kerstin Lucas (images: VUW Image Services)