Awards & Winners

Leon Cooper

Date of Birth 28-February-1930
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Leon N. Cooper
Profession Physicist
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.

Awards by Leon Cooper

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leon Cooper.

1972


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