John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer
	Schrieffer in 1972
Born	May 31, 1931; Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 27, 2019 (aged 88); Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for	BCS theory; Schrieffer–Wolff transformation; SSH model; Paramagnons
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1968); Comstock Prize in Physics (1968); Nobel Prize in Physics (1972); Fritz London Memorial Prize (1974); National Medal of Science (1983);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Florida; Florida State University; University of Birmingham; University of Chicago
Thesis	The theory of superconductivity (1964)
Doctoral advisor	John Bardeen

John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.

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