John Robert Schrieffer Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity.He was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He received his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1953, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1957.