Residence United States Name Leon Cooper Nationality American Role Physicist | Fields Physics | |
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Born February 28, 1930 (age 94) New York City, United States ( 1930-02-28 ) Doctoral students Elie BienenstockPaul MunroNathan IntratorOmer ArtunMichael PerroneAlan Saul Known for SuperconductivityCooper pairs Awards Nobel Prize in Physics, Comstock Prize in Physics, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books BCS: 50 Years, Physics, Theory of Cortical Plasticity, An Introduction to the Me Similar People John Robert Schrieffer, John Bardeen, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Walter Houser Brattain, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | ||
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Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) 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.
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- Brief interview with leon cooper science skills and a consulting job
- Art and science leon cooper
- Biography and career
- Memberships and honors
- Publications
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Art and science leon cooper
Biography and career
Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, M.A. in 1953, and Ph.D. in 1954 from Columbia University. He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study and taught at the University of Illinois and Ohio State University before coming to Brown University in 1958. He is the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown, and Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems.
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They had two children.
He has carried out research at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The character Sheldon Cooper, featured in the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, is named in part after Leon Cooper.
Memberships and honors
Publications
Cooper is the author of Science and Human Experience – a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space. (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Cooper is the author of an unconventional liberal-arts physics textbook, originally An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics (Harper and Row, 1968) and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as Physics: Structure and Meaning (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992).