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Leon Cooper


Born
in New York City, The United States
February 28, 1930

Died
October 23, 2024


Leon N. Cooper was an American physicist and professor of Brown University. His name is associated with his work on superconductivity and neuroscience. He proposed the Cooper pair mechanism in 1956 and in 1972 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer for the development of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
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Science and Human Experienc...

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Physics: Structure and Meaning

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Call Me Newt: The Civil War...

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Introduction to operations ...

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An Introduction to the Mean...

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Blown to Bits: 20,000 Feet ...

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THEORY OF CORTICAL PLASTICITY

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“To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.

Leon Cooper