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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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)