John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist
John Robert Schrieffer 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. Wikipedia
Born: May 31, 1931, Oak Park, IL
Died: July 27, 2019 (age 88 years), Tallahassee, FL
Academic advisors: John Bardeen and John C. Slater
Awards: Oliver E. Buckley Prize (1968), Comstock Prize in Physics (1968), Nobel Prize in Physics (1972), and more
Thesis: The theory of superconductivity (1964)