John Robert Schrieffer

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John Robert Schrieffer
Schrieffer in 1972
Born	(1931-05-31)May 31, 1931 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died	July 27, 2019(2019-07-27) (aged 88) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for	BCS theory Schrieffer–Wolff transformation SSH model Paramagnons
Awards	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1968) Comstock Prize in Physics (1968) Nobel Prize in Physics (1972) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1974) National Medal of Science (1983)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania University of California, Santa Barbara University of Florida Florida State University University of Birmingham University of Chicago
Thesis	The theory of superconductivity (1964)
Doctoral advisor	John Bardeen

John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019)^[1] was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.