John Robert Schrieffer

Physicist, Academic

1931 –

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Who is John Robert Schrieffer?

John Robert Schrieffer is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.

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Born
May 31, 1931
Oak Park
Also known as
  • J. R. Schrieffer
  • J. Robert Schrieffer
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
    Physics
    (1953 - 1957)
Employment
  • Florida State University
  • University of Florida
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
  • University of Pennsylvania
Lived in
  • Tallahassee

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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