Remembering The Passed

Remembering Robert SchriefferRobert Schrieffer was awarded one-third of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, for his work on the quantum theory of superconductivity. This theory also known as the BCS theory, for the initials of the discoverers, explained the electron alignment in superconductors at low temperatures, a concept that had eluded some of the world’s greatest physicists. Schrieffer made his contribution after coming up with the concept on a New York subway train. Late in his career he was involved in a fatal traffic accident and went to prison for a brief time.