John Robert Schrieffer Schrieffer was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on May 31, 1931. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master's (1954) and doctoral (1957) degrees from the University of Illinois. While a graduate student, Schr... more
Schrieffer, John Robert (born May 31, 1931, Oak Park, Ill., U.S.) American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconduct... more
