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John Robert Schrieffer

1931 - 2019

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John Robert Schrieffer (; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Robert Schrieffer is the 277th most popular physicist (up from 314th in 2019), the 1,281st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,584th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 277 out of 851. Before him are Pierre Agostini, Gerard 't Hooft, John C. Mather, Masatoshi Koshiba, Claude-Louis Navier, and Daniel Rutherford. After him are David Gross, Mihajlo Pupin, William Daniel Phillips, Valentin Ceaușescu, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, and Peter Mansfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 62. Before him are Michael Lonsdale, Caterina Valente, Takashi Takabayashi, Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, and Hiroto Muraoka. After him are Faten Hamama, Ettore Scola, Syukuro Manabe, Lucia Bosè, Arawa Kimura, and Jean-Claude Carrière. Among people deceased in 2019, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 53. Before him are Marie Laforêt, Sydney Brenner, Andrea Camilleri, Giya Kancheli, Roger Etchegaray, and John Tate. After him are Ágnes Heller, Lennart Johansson, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Godfried Danneels, Sigmund Jähn, and Ferdinand Piëch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 1,281 out of 20,380. Before him are John Belushi (1949), MacKenzie Scott (1970), Ida Tarbell (1857), Frank Marshall (1946), William Kemmler (1860), and Rudy Giuliani (1944). After him are Michelle Obama (1964), Lita Grey (1908), Raymond Damadian (1936), Albert Pike (1809), William Luther Pierce (1933), and Kevin McCarthy (1965).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 63. Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), and David Gross (1941). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John C. Mather (1946), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), and Samuel C. C. Ting (1936).

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