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BCS Electron Pair Wavefunction

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1957

Robert Schrieffer1957

Urbana · Science / Physics

Develops the many-electron wavefunction used in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity.

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Robert Schrieffer

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