John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer | |
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Schrieffer in 1972 | |
| Born | May 31, 1931 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | July 27, 2019 (aged 88) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Known for | BCS theory Schrieffer–Wolff transformation SSH model Paramagnons |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Barbara University of Florida Florida State University University of Birmingham University of Chicago |
| Thesis | The theory of superconductivity (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Bardeen |
John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.