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 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.