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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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- human
- Given name
- Leon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Providence
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Bronx High School of Science
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- BCS theory
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Serber
- Field of work
- superconductivity
- Official website
- research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1100923912
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- Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper in 2007.jpg
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- Leon Cooper
- date of birth
- 1930-02-28
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- 5
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
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- date of death
- 2024-10-23
- name in native language
- Leon Cooper
- birth name
- Leon N. Kupchik
- interested in
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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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