biography
| name: |
Cooper, Leon N(eil)
|
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1930– )
|
| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, New York, USA. At the University of Illinois (1955–7), he collaborated with Bardeen and Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of superconductivity, for which they shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics. He moved to Brown University (1958) where he predicted the low-temperature pairing of electrons now known as Cooper pairs. His later investigations include research on memory organization in the brain. |
|
|
