Quote of the day
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Leon Cooper
Born: February 28, 1930 (age 94)
Bio: Leon N Cooper is an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, who with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity. He is 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)