John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory , the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.
Schrieffer was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but his family moved in 1940 to Manhasset, New York, and then in 1947 to Eustis, Florida, where his father a former pharmaceutical salesman began a career...
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John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory , the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.
Schrieffer was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but his family moved in 1940 to Manhasset, New York, and then in 1947 to Eustis, Florida, where his father a former pharmaceutical salesman began a career in the citrus industry. In his Florida days, Schrieffer enjoyed playing with homemade rockets and ham radio, a hobby that sparked an interest in electrical engineering.
After graduating from Eustis High School in 1949, Schrieffer was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where for two years he majored in electrical engineering before switching to physics in his junior year. He completed a bachelor's thesis on multiplets in heavy atoms under the direction of John C. Slater in 1953. Pursuing an interest in solid-state physics,...
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