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Robert Schrieffer
John Robert
Schrieffer, American physicist born May 31, 1931 in Oak Park, Illinois he most
well-known for his contributing work on the BCS Theory of Superconductivity
with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper at the University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana. He published his book on the BCS Theory in 1964. For which he received the Noble Prize in
Physics in 1972.
As a child
he was passionate about rockets and ham radio it would be these passions that
would lead him to the field of electrical engineering. In 1949 he graduated from Eustis High School
and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at MIT he
became fascinated with physics and decided to switch majors. He received his BA in 1953 and his PhD in
physics from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1957. During his
graduate program he worked directly under professor John Bardeen as a graduate
researcher.
Upon
graduating he taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois
Champaign Urbana. He then took a position at the University of Pennsylvania in
1964 and was named the Mary Amanda Wood professor of physics. Schrieffer was
named the Andrew D. White professor at Cornell, the University of California,
University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of
Birmingham.
Work Cited:
John Robert
Schrieffer. (2014, November 19). Retrieved November 20, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Schrieffe
John Robert
Schrieffer. (n.d.). Retrieved November 20, 2014, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/528267/John-Robert
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