| Robert Schrieffer  AKA John Robert Schrieffer
Born: 31-May-1931
Birthplace: Oak Park, IL
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: BCS Theory of Superconductivity Father: John H. Schrieffer
Mother: Louis Anderson
Wife: Anne Grete Thomsen (m. 1960, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Bolette
Son: Paul
Daughter: Regina
High School: Eustis High School, Eustis, FL (1949)
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University: PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1957)
Professor: University of Chicago (1957-59)
Professor: University of Illinois (1959-62)
Professor: University of Pennsylvania (1962-)
Professor: Cornell University (1969-75)
Professor: Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (1980-)
Professor: Florida State University (1992-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1972 (with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper)
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Science 1984
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors
National Academy of Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Russian Academy of Sciences
Author of books:
Theory of Superconductivity (1964, physics)
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