Leon Cooper
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 94 |
| Date of birth | February 28,1930 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | The Bronx |
| New York City | |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Known for | Superconductivity |
| Cooper pair | |
| Academic advisor | Robert Serber |
| Job | Physicist |
| Education | Columbia University |
| The Bronx High School of Science | |
| Books | BCS: 50 Years |
| Theory of Cortical Plasticity | |
| Physics | |
| Science and Human Experience: Values, Culture, and the Mind | |
| An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Comstock Prize in Physics | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 532096 |
Leon Cooper Life story
Leon N Cooper is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. He is also the namesake of the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
