Leon Cooper

Leon N Cooper
; Leon N Cooper
	Cooper in 2007
Born	28 Februar 1930 (age 92); Bronx, New York, Unitit States
Residence	Unitit States
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Columbia Varsity
Kent for	Superconductivity; Cooper pairs
Awairds	Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1972); Comstock Prize in Pheesics (1968)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Brown Varsity
Doctoral advisor	Robert Serber
Doctoral students	Elie Bienenstock; Paul Munro; Nathan Intrator; Omer Artun; Michael Perrone; Alan Saul

Leon N Cooper^[1] (born Februar 28, 1930) is an American pheesicist an Nobel Prize laureate, wha wi John Bardeen an John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory o superconductivity.^[2]^[3] He is an aa the namesake o the Cooper pair an co-developer o the BCM theory o synaptic plasticity.^[4]

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↑ Mony prentit materials, includin the Nobel Prize wabsteid, hae referred tae Cooper as “Leon Neil Cooper”. However, the middle ineetial N disna staund for Neil, or for ony ither name. The correct form o the name is, thus, “Leon N Cooper”, wi na abbreviation dots (an earlier soorce http://revista.cecm.usp.br/arquivo/2006jan/entrevista/cooper^{[deid airtin]} is no longer available)^{[citation needit]}
↑ "Superconductivity". CERN official website. CERN.
↑ Weinberg, Steven (Februar 2008). "From BSC to the LHC". CERN Courier. 48 (1): 17–21.
↑ Bienenstock, Elie (1982). "Theory for the development of neuron selectivity: orientation specificity and binocular interaction in visual cortex". The Journal of Neuroscience. 2 (1): 32–48.