Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

John Bardeen — Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

Leon Neil Cooper — Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

John Robert Schrieffer — Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 was awarded jointly to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"

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