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John Robert Schrieffer shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.”
“I happened to be in New York, and I was sitting on the subway when I realized that maybe the scheme that Tomonaga used to describe the pion-nucleon interaction would be a useful way to go.”
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Fossheim, K. (2013). John Robert Schrieffer: The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity. In: Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36059-6_5
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