Leon Neil Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist. ... John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ... BCS theory successfully explains conventional superconductivity, the ability of certain metals at low temperatures to conduct electricity without resistance. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor with boiling liquid nitrogen underneath demonstrates the Meissner effect. ...
He currently teaches at Brown University. Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...
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