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Also known as Leon Neil Cooper

American physicist (1930–2024)

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Leon Cooper (1930–2024) was an American physicist and university teacher who worked in theoretical physics, physics, and superconductivity. Born in New York City, he was educated at Bronx High School of Science and Columbia University, where his doctoral advisor was Robert Serber. Cooper served as a faculty member at Brown University and the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He is noted for his work on the Cooper pair and BCS theory.

Cooper was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He died in Providence in 2024.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1972

    for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory

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Instance of
human
Given name
Leon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Providence
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
BCS theory
Doctoral advisor
Robert Serber
Field of work
superconductivity
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Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper in 2007.jpg
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Leon Cooper
date of birth
1930-02-28
Erdős number
5
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date of death
2024-10-23
name in native language
Leon Cooper
birth name
Leon N. Kupchik
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Leon N. Cooper (né Kupchik; February 28, 1930 – October 23, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.

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