
“for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”
John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS theory. He was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.
- Field
- Physics · Condensed Matter Physics
- Lifespan
- 1931–2019