Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Leon Cooper
Born: February 28, 1930
Died: October 23, 2024 (aged 94)
Bio: Leon N Cooper was an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. He was also the namesake of the Cooper pair and co-developer of the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
Known for:
- Physics (1992)
- BCS: 50 Years (2010)
- Theory of Cortical Plasticity (2004)