The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
Awarded on: 1972-10-20
"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"
Affiliations:
- University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA, USA
John Robert Schrieffer
Born: 1931-05-31 in Oak Park, IL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1931–2019)
Biography
John Robert Schrieffer was an American theoretical physicist who received the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics along with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum description of superconductivity.