The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
Awarded on: 1972-10-20
"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"
Affiliations:
- Brown University – Providence, RI, USA
Leon Neil Cooper
Born: 1930-02-28 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1930–2024)
Biography
Leon N. Cooper was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.