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Leon N Cooper[1] (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer in 1972. He helped developed the BCS theory of superconductivity.[2][3]
Leon N Cooper | |
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Born | Bronx, New York, U.S. | February 28, 1930
Alma mater | Columbia University (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1953, Ph.D. 1954) |
Known for | Superconductivity Cooper pairs |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1972) Comstock Prize in Physics (1968) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Brown University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Serber |
He is also the namesake of the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.[4]
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