Awards & Winners

John Robert Schrieffer

Date of Birth 31-May-1931
Place of Birth Oak Park
(Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as J. R. Schrieffer, J. Robert Schrieffer
Profession Physicist
John Robert Schrieffer is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.

Awards by John Robert Schrieffer

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Robert Schrieffer.

1983


National Medal of Science for Physical Science
(In recognition of his insight into cooperative effects in solids and solid surfaces dependent on interacting many-body systems and for his leadership in showing how one couples formal theoretical work with experimental findings to make significant advances in the area of condensed matter physics.)

1972


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory)