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John Robert Schrieffer (/ ˈ ʃ r iː f ər /; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.
Jul 27, 2019 · Biographical. John Robert Schrieffer was born in Oak Park, Illinois on May 31, 1931, son of John H. Schrieffer and his wife Louis (née Anderson). In 1940, the family moved to Manhasset, New York and in 1947 to Eustis, Florida where they became active in the citrus industry.
May 27, 2024 · John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. Schrieffer was educated at the Massachusetts.
Jul 27, 2019 · John Robert Schrieffer. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972. Born: 31 May 1931, Oak Park, IL, USA. Died: 27 July 2019, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory” Prize share: 1/3.
Sep 20, 2019 · John Robert (“Bob”) Schrieffer, one of the leading theoretical physicists of the past century, passed away on 27 July. He was 88. His seminal work with physicists John Bardeen and Leon Cooper earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 and is now the accepted the theory of superconductivity.
Oct 8, 2019 · The story of how Robert Schrieffer solved a problem that had resisted the best minds in physics for more than 40 years, while riding the New York subway, is the stuff of legend in some...
Aug 6, 2019 · J. Robert Schrieffer, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for figuring out how certain materials can convey electricity without resistance — a brainstorm that came to him while riding the New...
John Robert ”Bob” Schrieffer, the condensed matter theorist who explained the quantum rationale underpinning superconductivity, died July 27 at the age of 88. Schrieffer was responsible for a critical component of the theory: defining the BCS wavefunction.
John Robert Schrieffer, a Nobel laureate in physics who served as the chief scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for many years, died July 27, 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla. He was 88 years old.
John Robert Schrieffer. While still in graduate school, John Robert Schrieffer developed with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper a theoretical explanation of superconductivity that garnered the trio the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.
