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Schrieffer

American  
[shree-fer] / ˈʃri fər /

noun

  1. John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1972.


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This phenomenon was first explained in the 1950s by physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

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

In early 1957, Schrieffer, then a 25-year-old graduate student, wrote down a quantum-mechanical wave function that accounted for the behaviour of electrons in superconductors.

From Nature • Oct. 7, 2019

Dr. Schrieffer explored science through work with rockets and ham radio, and entered MIT to study electrical engineering.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2019

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