Student Education Repository (மாணவர்கள் கல்விக் களஞ்சியம்): Today (February 28, 1930) is the birthday of Leon Cooper, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of superconductivity.

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Today (February 28, 1930) is the birthday of Leon Cooper, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of superconductivity.

Today (February 28, 1930) is the birthday of Leon Cooper, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of superconductivity.

Leon N Cooper was born on February 28, 1930, in New York, USA. Cooper graduated from the Franks High School of Science in 1947. He received his bachelor's degree in 1951 and his master's degree in 1953. He also received his doctorate in 1954 from Columbia University. He worked for a year at the Institute of Higher Education, the University of Illinois and the University of Ohio. He then joined Brown University in 1958. He was predeceased by Thomas J. Watson Sr. Brown was a science professor to him when he was at university. He also served as director of the Brain and Neurological Institute. In 1969, Cooper married Coy Allard. They have two children.

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Cooper conducted research at various educational institutions, including the Institute of Advanced Study and the European Federation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Shelton Cooper, the character in The Big Bang Theory, a comedy film produced by Columbia Broadcasting System, was later named in his memory. He is also the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of superconductivity. John Bardeen and John Robert Schreiber shared the Nobel Prize with him. And those who expanded and adjusted the PCS theory of superconductivity. The study of the elasticity of neurons (PCM study) is called the Cooper pair study by his name.

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