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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer

Robert Schrieffer - Facts

John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer

Born: 31 May 1931, Oak Park, IL, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Prize motivation: "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"

Field: Superconductivity

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