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Nobel Prize for Superconductivity

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

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1972Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1972

Leon CooperDecember 1972

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the BCS theory based on paired electrons.

Robert SchriefferDecember 1972

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the BCS theory of superconductivity.

Names involved

Leon CooperRobert Schrieffer

Provenance

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