RIP Leon N Cooper (1930 - 2024) - Nobel 1972

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Cooper

Leon Cooper Dies at 94; Nobelist Unlocked Secrets of Superconductivity
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/science/leon-cooper-dead.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1972/summary/
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 was awarded jointly to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/cooper-lecture.pdf


Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity
J. Bardeen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer
Phys. Rev. 106, 162 – Published 1 April 1957
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.106.162

Theory of Superconductivity
J. Bardeen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer
Phys. Rev. 108, 1175 – Published 1 December 1957
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.108.1175

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https://vivo.brown.edu/display/lcooper


(2003) Leon Cooper, Nobel Prize in Physics 1972: Interview


(2014) Leon Cooper, author of Science and Human Experience, on studying science


(2014) Leon Cooper, author of Science and Human Experience, on scientific equations


He authored an interesting introductory textbook
An introduction to the meaning and structure of physics
https://www.amazon.com/introduction-meaning-structure-physics/dp/B0006BU90O?tag=pfamazon01-20
and a condensed form
Physics: Structure and Meaning
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Structure-Leon-N-Cooper/dp/0874515920?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

A fun fact about Cooper was that he co-founded the Brain Science Program at Brown University, applying principles of theoretical physics to neuroscience and helping bridge the gap between these two fields.