Leon N. Cooper | |
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Born |
Bronx, New York, U.S. | February 28, 1930
Alma mater | Columbia University ( BA 1951, MA 1953, PhD 1954) |
Known for |
Cooper pairs BCM theory BCS theory |
Awards |
John Jay Award (1985) Nobel Prize in Physics (1972) Comstock Prize in Physics (1968) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Brown University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Serber |
Leon N. Cooper [1] (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. [2] [3] His name is also associated with the Cooper pair and the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity. [4]
Cooper's mother is Jewish. [5] Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 [6] [7] and received a BA in 1951, [8] MA in 1953, [8] and PhD in 1954 from Columbia University. [8] [9] 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. [9] He has been the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown since 1974, and director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems which he founded in 1973. [8] Along with colleague Charles Elbaum, he founded the tech company Nestor, dedicated to finding commercial applications for artificial neural networks. [10] Nestor, along with Intel, developed the Ni1000 neural network computer chip in 1994. [11]
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They have two children. [12]
He has carried out research at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and 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. [13]
Cooper is the author of Science and Human Experience – a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space.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) [15] and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as Physics: Structure and Meaning (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992).
Leon N. Cooper | |
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Born |
Bronx, New York, U.S. | February 28, 1930
Alma mater | Columbia University ( BA 1951, MA 1953, PhD 1954) |
Known for |
Cooper pairs BCM theory BCS theory |
Awards |
John Jay Award (1985) Nobel Prize in Physics (1972) Comstock Prize in Physics (1968) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Brown University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Serber |
Leon N. Cooper [1] (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. [2] [3] His name is also associated with the Cooper pair and the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity. [4]
Cooper's mother is Jewish. [5] Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 [6] [7] and received a BA in 1951, [8] MA in 1953, [8] and PhD in 1954 from Columbia University. [8] [9] 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. [9] He has been the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown since 1974, and director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems which he founded in 1973. [8] Along with colleague Charles Elbaum, he founded the tech company Nestor, dedicated to finding commercial applications for artificial neural networks. [10] Nestor, along with Intel, developed the Ni1000 neural network computer chip in 1994. [11]
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They have two children. [12]
He has carried out research at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and 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. [13]
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) [15] and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as Physics: Structure and Meaning (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992).