John Robert Schrieffer

Bio Data

I was born May 31, 1931, in Oak Park. I attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and then did graduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana, receiving my Ph.D. in 1957.

What I Did

One day, I was riding the subway as a graduate student (yo! Urbana was a bigger town back then :-) when it all became very clear -- why metals lose electrical resistance at very low temperatures. This led to a Nobel Prize for Physics, for developing the BCS theory. Those other two initials are for my collaborators, John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper

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