Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
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John Bardeen
Prize share: 1/3
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Leon Neil Cooper
Prize share: 1/3
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John Robert Schrieffer
Prize share: 1/3
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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