Leon Cooper
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1972for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/28/1930
- place of birth
- New York City
- date of death
- 10/23/2024
- place of death
- Providence
- Lived
- 94 years
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- educated at
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- Columbia University
- academic degree: Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics
- end time: 1954
- Bronx High School of Science
- Columbia University
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1975
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Philosophical Society
- American Physical Society
- National Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- theoretical physics
- superconductivity
- physics
- doctoral student
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- Brian S. Blais
- Elie Lucien Bienenstock
- Nathan Intrator
- Alan Bruce Saul
- Michael Peter Perrone
- employer
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Brown University
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- notable work
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- BCM theory
- Cooper pair
- BCS theory