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A theory is a well-defined structure that we hope is in correspondence with what we observe. It's an architecture, a cathedral.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Leon Cooper

Leon Cooper
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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:
  1. Physics (1992)
  2. BCS: 50 Years (2010)
  3. Theory of Cortical Plasticity (2004)

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