Leon Cooper

Person · Open Library

Born

1924

Works

10

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1930

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

33

Total plays

68

Mellow and hearfelt songs from Southern Vermont, this is a first album of re visualized versions of songs Leon has been playing for the past 25 years, as well as some newly written ones. Operating outside of any established scene has helped create a unique style that is both laid back and passionate, with lyrics that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. "Two Birds" is complimented by local musicians on bass, drums, cello, trombone, and other insturments. See www.atara.net/twobirds. for more

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

   · 1978 · cited 21,804x

2. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

   · 2012 · cited 17,969x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,787x

4. A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

   · 1957 · cited 17,073x

5. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,809x

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Quotes

• “Consider a pair of electrons which interact above a quiescent Fermi sphere with an interaction of the kind that might be expected due to the phonon and the screened Coulomb fields. If there is a net attraction between the electrons, it turns out that they can form a bound state, though their total energy is larger than zero. The properties of a noninteracting system of such bound pairs are very suggestive of those which could produce a superconducting state.”
• “Relativity, from one viewpoint the beginning of twentieth-century physics, is from another the capstone of classical physics, the final and most elegant variation of the world view initiated by Galileo and Newton. In a sense, after Einstein, classical physics, just as after Mozart classical music, could go no further.”
• “The long and imposing list of physicists (among them Bohr, Heisenberg and Feynman) who had tried or were trying their hand at superconductivity should have given me pause. Even Einstein, in 1922 — before the quantum theory of metals was in place — had attempted to construct a theory of superconductivity. Fortunately, I was unaware of these many unsuccessful attempts. So when John invited me to join him (he, somehow, neglected to mention these previous efforts), I decided to take the plunge.”
• “How do we get emotions and feelings out of neurons which, presumably, don't have emotions and feelings?”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Physics1972

  “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Leon

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Providence

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

Bronx High School of Science

Employer

University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

BCS theory

Doctoral advisor

Robert Serber

Field of work

superconductivity

Official website

research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1100923912

Image

Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper in 2007.jpg

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