Cooper, Leon Neal, 1930-
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Leon Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate who, with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a BA in 1951, MA in 1953, and PhD in 1954 from Columbia University. He has been the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown since 1974, and director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems which he founded in 1973.
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| referencedIn | Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995. Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1981 January 24. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| referencedIn | Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.). H. Kamerlingh Onnes Symposium on the origins of applied superconductivity [videorecording] / recorded by the Naval Research Laboratory ; 1986 Oct 1. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| creatorOf | Cooper, Leon N., 1930-. Autograph card. | Smithsonian Institution. Libraries |
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