John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019) was an American physicist and university teacher whose field of work included physics and superconductivity. Born in Oak Park, he was educated at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral advisor was John Bardeen. Schrieffer held positions at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Florida State University, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Pennsylvania. He died in Tallahassee.

Schrieffer received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Comstock Prize in Physics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.