John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer

Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

University of Pennsylvania

“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