Died 2019-07-27.
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John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer was an American theoretical physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum description of superconductivity.
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science · American physicist (1931–2019) · physicist · university teacher · also John Robert Schrieffer, John Schrieffer, John R. Schrieffer, J. Robert Schrieffer, Schrieffer
Born 31 May 1931 · Died 27 July 2019 · Q153201
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2019· 2 entries
At a nursing facility in Florida while sleeping
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2005· 1 entry
Was sentenced to two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter
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2004· 1 entry
While driving with a suspended license, Schrieffer was involved in an automobile accident that killed one person and injured seven others
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1992· 1 entry
Florida State University appointed Schrieffer as a university eminent scholar professor and chief scientist of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where he continued to pursue one of the great goals in physics:
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1983· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Schrieffer became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and rose to chancellor professor in 1984, serving as director of the university's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1972).
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1968· 2 entries
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1968).
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Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1968).
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1966).
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1964· 1 entry
Schrieffer published his book on the BCS theory, Theory of Superconductivity
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1960· 1 entry
Went back to the Bohr Institute for a summer visit, during which he became engaged to Anne Grete Thomsen, whom he married at Christmas of that year
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1957· 1 entry
Studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Doctor of Philosophy (1957).
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1949· 1 entry
Schrieffer was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where for two years he majored in electrical engineering before switching to physics in his junior year
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1940· 1 entry
To Manhasset, New York, and then in 1947 to Eustis, Florida, where his father, a former pharmaceutical salesman, began a career in the citrus industry
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1931· 2 entries
In Oak Park, Illinois, the son of John Henry Schrieffer and Louise Anderson
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Born 1931-05-31.
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