Quote of the day
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment; cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.
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)







