John Bardeen
Born 1908
Died 1991
"Leon
Leon N. Cooper
Born 1930
"Robert
Robert Schrieffer
Born 1931
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"
John Bardeen Leon Neil Cooper John Robert Schrieffer
John Bardeen Leon Neil Cooper John Robert Schrieffer
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA USA USA
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL, USA		 Brown University
Providence, RI, USA		 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
b. 1908
d. 1991		 b. 1930 b. 1931
 
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