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Leon Neil Cooper - Definition and Overview

Leon Neil Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel 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.

He currently teaches at Brown University.

External link

  • Leon Neil Cooper (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/leon_neil_cooper.html)


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