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John Robert Schrieffer

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John Robert Schrieffer
Born31 Mey 1931(1931-05-31)
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Dee'd27 Julie 2019 (aged 88)
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
NaitionalityUnitit States
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Varsity o Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AwairdsNaitional Medal o Science (1983)
Nobel Prize for Physics (1972)
Comstock Prize in Physics (1968)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsVarsity o Pennsylvanie
Varsity o Californie, Santa Barbara
Varsity o Florida
Florida State Varsity
Varsity o Birmingham
Doctoral advisorJohn Bardeen

John Robert Schrieffer (born Mey 31, 1931; deed Julie 27, 2019) wis an American physicist wha, wi John Bardeen an Leon N Cooper, wis a recipient o the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developin the BCS theory, the first successfu quantum theory o superconductivity.