John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and university teacher. Born in Oak Park in 1931, he studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Florida State University, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral advisor was John Bardeen.

Schrieffer received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Comstock Prize in Physics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work focused on physics and superconductivity. He died in Tallahassee in 2019.