John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist (1931–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019)[1] 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.
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Born | (1931-05-31)May 31, 1931 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | July 27, 2019(2019-07-27) (aged 88) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Known for | BCS theory Schrieffer–Wolff transformation SSH model Paramagnons |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Barbara University of Florida Florida State University University of Birmingham University of Chicago |
Thesis | The theory of superconductivity (1964) |
Doctoral advisor | John Bardeen |
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