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February 28, 1930

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Leon Cooper

1930Leon Cooper, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[โ€ ]

Leon N. Cooper was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.