Quote of the day
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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)







