Leon Cooper
Leon Cooper | |
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 Cooper in 2007 | |
| Born | Leon N. Kupchik February 28, 1930 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 23, 2024 (aged 94) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Education | Columbia University (grad. 1951, 1953, 1954) |
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| Spouse |
Kay Allard (m. 1969) |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Workplaces | Brown University |
| Thesis | Mu-mesonic atoms and the electromagnetic radius of the nucleus (1954) |
| Robert Serber | |
Leon N. Cooper (né Kupchik; February 28, 1930 – October 23, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.