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Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics, Nobel Prize laureate who, with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. His name is also associated with the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They have two children.
He has carried out research at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The character Sheldon Cooper, featured in the CBS comedy ''The Big Bang Theory'', is named in part after Leon Cooper.
Science and Human Experience
– a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space. (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Cooper is the author of an unconventional liberal-arts physics textbook, originally ''An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics'' (Harper and Row, 1968) and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as ''Physics: Structure and Meaning'' (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992). *Cooper, L. N. & J. Rainwater
"Theory of Multiple Coulomb Scattering from Extended Nuclei"
Nevis Cyclotron Laboratories at Columbia University, Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Energy Commission), (August 1954). * * * *Cooper, L. N., Lee, H. J., Schwartz, B. B. & W. Silvert
"Theory of the Knight Shift and Flux Quantization in Superconductors"
Brown University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Energy Commission), (May 1962). *Cooper, L. N. & Feldman, D
"BCS: 50 years"
World Scientific Publishing Co., (November 2010).
Brown University researcher profile
* ''Critical Review (Brown), Critical Review'
evaluations
of Professor Cooper * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Leon N 1930 births Living people Nobel laureates in Physics American Nobel laureates 21st-century American physicists Jewish American physicists Brown University faculty People associated with CERN Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Fellows of the American Physical Society Jewish neuroscientists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Superconductivity The Bronx High School of Science alumni Scientists from New York (state) Scientists from the Bronx
Biography and career
Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a Bachelor of Arts, BA in 1951, Master of Arts, MA in 1953, and PhD in 1954 from Columbia University. He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Illinois and Ohio State University before coming to Brown University in 1958. He has been the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown since 1974, and Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems which he founded in 1973. Along with colleague Charles Elbaum, he founded the tech company ''Nestor'', dedicated to finding commercial applications for artificial neural networks. Nestor, along with Intel, developed the Ni1000 neural network computer chip in 1994.
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They have two children.
He has carried out research at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The character Sheldon Cooper, featured in the CBS comedy ''The Big Bang Theory'', is named in part after Leon Cooper.
Memberships and honors
*Fellow of the American Physical Society *Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences *Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences *Member of the American Philosophical Society *Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science *Associate member of the Neuroscience Research Program *Research Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1959–1966) *Fellow of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Institute (1965–66) *Nobel Prize Recipient for Physics (1972) *Co-winner (with Dr. Schrieffer) of the Comstock Prize in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences (1968) *Received the Award of Excellence, Graduate Faculties Alumni of Columbia University *Received the Descartes Medal, Academie de Paris, Université René Descartes. *Received the John Jay Award of Columbia College (1985) *Recipient of seven honorary doctoratesPublications
Cooper is the author oScience and Human Experience
– a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space. (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Cooper is the author of an unconventional liberal-arts physics textbook, originally ''An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics'' (Harper and Row, 1968) and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as ''Physics: Structure and Meaning'' (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992). *Cooper, L. N. & J. Rainwater
"Theory of Multiple Coulomb Scattering from Extended Nuclei"
Nevis Cyclotron Laboratories at Columbia University, Office of Naval Research (ONR), United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Energy Commission), (August 1954). * * * *Cooper, L. N., Lee, H. J., Schwartz, B. B. & W. Silvert
"Theory of the Knight Shift and Flux Quantization in Superconductors"
Brown University, United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Energy Commission), (May 1962). *Cooper, L. N. & Feldman, D
"BCS: 50 years"
World Scientific Publishing Co., (November 2010).
References
External links
* including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 ''Microscopic Quantum Interference Effects in the Theory of Superconductivity''Brown University researcher profile
* ''Critical Review (Brown), Critical Review'
evaluations
of Professor Cooper * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Leon N 1930 births Living people Nobel laureates in Physics American Nobel laureates 21st-century American physicists Jewish American physicists Brown University faculty People associated with CERN Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Fellows of the American Physical Society Jewish neuroscientists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Superconductivity The Bronx High School of Science alumni Scientists from New York (state) Scientists from the Bronx