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2012
Prize category:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer

Interview

Interview, July 2003

Interview with Professor Leon N. Cooper by freelance journalist Marika Griehsel at the 53rd meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 30 June-4 July 2003.

Professor Cooper, who was attending the Lindau meeting for the fifth time, talks about problems with predicting the future, unforeseen practical applications of superconductivity (2:12), and his present work in neuroscience (6:31). Cooper also provides some advise to young students (14:24) and talks about the thrill of solving problems (16:29).

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19 min.
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