Schrieffer
Americannoun
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Dr. Hirsch is a bull-in-a-china-shop contrarian taking aim at B.C.S. theory, which was devised in 1957 by three physicists — John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and J. Robert Schrieffer — to explain how superconductivity works.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2023
The phenomenon remained a mystery until 1957, when physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer explained those first superconductors.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 26, 2021
Physicists Nick Bonesteel and Gregory Boebinger write about their colleague, J. Robert Schrieffer, who had his Nobel-prizewinning insight into the theoretical basis of superconductivity when he was just 25.
From Nature • Oct. 8, 2019
In an account prepared by the American Physical Society, an important idea came to Dr. Schrieffer while riding the New York City subway to a physics meeting early in 1957.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2019
Along with colleagues John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, Schrieffer was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for developing the BCS theory.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2019
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