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- John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.—died July 27, 2019, Tallahassee, Florida) 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.
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Apr 5, 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.
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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 . Life and career.
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- Condensed-matter physics
John Robert Schrieffer 1931-2019. By Daniel Garisto. 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.
In early 1957 he developed the necessary equations, which considered the activity of all Cooper pairs simultaneously, rather than as individual pairs. Later that same year, the BCS theory was completed and announced. For his doctoral dissertation, Schrieffer gave an account of his theoretical work on superconductivity.
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.
- Douglas Scalapino, Steven Allan Kivelson
- 2019
Aug 6, 2019 · By Kenneth Chang. 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...
Oct 8, 2019 · Gregory Boebinger. Credit: Bettman/Getty. 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,...
