| 1 | Name: | Dr. John Robert Schrieffer | |
| Institution: | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory & Florida State University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1975 | ||
| Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 106. Physics | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1931 | ||
| Death Date: | July 27, 2019 | ||
Research physicist John R. Schrieffer performed fundamental studies in solid state and low temperature properties of matter, including superconductivity and electromagnetism. With John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of Illinois, Dr. Schrieffer taught at the University of Chicago (1957-60), the University of Illinois (1959-62), the University of Pennsylvania (1962-80) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (1980-92). From 1992 until 2006 he served as Chief Scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Eminent Scholar Professor at Florida State University, where he has pursued the study of room temperature superconductivity. Dr. Schrieffer was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the author of the BCS theory book Theory of Superconductivity (1964). He died July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88. | |||