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John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; 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. In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while

driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular

manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.

Schrieffer

was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the

son of Louise (Anderson) and John Henry Schrieffer. His family moved in 1940 to Manhasset, New York, and

then in 1947 to Eustis, Florida, where his

father, a former pharmaceutical salesman, began a career in the citrus

industry. In his Florida days, Schrieffer enjoyed playing with homemade rockets

and ham radio, a hobby that sparked an interest in electrical engineering. After

graduating from Eustis High School in

1949, Schrieffer was admitted to the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, where for two years he majored in

electrical engineering before switching to physics in his junior year. He

completed a bachelor's thesis on multiplets in heavy atoms under the direction

of John C. Slater in

1953. Pursuing an interest in solid-state physics, Schrieffer began graduate

studies at the University

of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was hired immediately as a

research assistant to John Bardeen. After working out a theoretical problem of

electrical conduction on semiconductor surfaces, Schrieffer spent a year in the

laboratory, applying the theory to several surface problems. In his third year

of graduate studies, he joined Bardeen and Leon Cooper in developing the theory

of superconductivity. Schrieffer recalled that in January 1957 he was on a

subway in New York City when he had an idea of how to describe mathematically

the ground state of superconducting atoms. Schrieffer and Bardeen's

collaborator Cooper had discovered that electrons in a superconductor are

grouped in pairs, now called Cooper pairs, and that the motions of all Cooper pairs within

a single superconductor are correlated and function as a single entity due to

phonon-electron interactions. Schrieffer's mathematical breakthrough was to

describe the behavior of all Cooper pairs at the same time, instead of each

individual pair. The day after returning to Illinois, Schrieffer showed his

equations to Bardeen, who immediately realized they were the solution to the

problem. The BCS theory (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer) of superconductivity, as it

is now known, accounted for more than 30 years of experimental results that had

stymied some of the greatest theorists in physics. After completing his

doctoral dissertation on the theory of superconductivity, Schrieffer spent the

1957–1958 academic year as a National Science

Foundation fellow at the University of Birmingham in

England and at the Niels Bohr Institute in

Copenhagen, where he continued research into superconductivity. Following a

year as assistant professor at the University of Chicago, he returned to the

University of Illinois in 1959 as a faculty member. In 1960, he went back to

the Bohr Institute for a summer visit, during which he became engaged to Anne

Grete Thomsen whom he married at Christmas of that year. Two years later,

Schrieffer joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and, in 1964, Schrieffer published his book on

the BCS theory, Theory of Superconductivity. He held honorary degrees from

the Technical University of

Munich and the University of Geneva. In

1968 Schrieffer, along with Leon Cooper, were awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from

the National Academy of

Sciences.

In

1972, Schrieffer along with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper won the 1972 Nobel

Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory. In 1980, Schrieffer became a

professor at the University

of California, Santa Barbara, and rose to chancellor professor in

1984, serving as director of the for Theoretical Physics. In 1992, Florida State University appointed

Schrieffer as a university eminent scholar professor and chief scientist of

the National

High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where he continued to pursue one of

the great goals in physics: room temperature superconductivity. On September

24, 2004, while driving with a suspended license, Schrieffer was involved in an automobile accident

that killed one person and injured seven others. Schrieffer was said to have

fallen asleep at the wheel of his car. On November 6, 2005, he was sentenced to

two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter.

Schrieffer was incarcerated in Richard J.

Donovan Correctional Facility at Rock Mountain near San Diego, California. He

died in late July 2019 at a nursing facility in Florida while sleeping. He was

88 years old. 

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