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John Robert Schrieffer

1931 - 2019

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John Robert Schrieffer (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Robert Schrieffer has received more than 256,914 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). John Robert Schrieffer is the 313th most popular physicist (down from 311th in 2019), the 1,584th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,757th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 313 out of 851. Before him are David Gross, Ratko Janev, Paul-Jacques Curie, Moshé Feldenkrais, James Jeans, and Vagn Walfrid Ekman. After him are Jan Ingenhousz, Ludwig Prandtl, Fritjof Capra, Robert B. Laughlin, Ernst Chladni, and William Whewell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 78. Before him are Caterina Valente, Antonella Lualdi, Don King, Carroll Baker, Clive Cussler, and Sam Cooke. After him are Vujadin Boškov, Charles Taylor, Telê Santana, Ferenc Mádl, Stephen Boyd, and Takashi Takabayashi. Among people deceased in 2019, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 75. Before him are Alicia Alonso, Ratko Janev, Paul Greengard, Dragoslav Šekularac, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Vladimir Bukovsky. After him are Nikolai Kardashev, Luke Perry, Felice Gimondi, André Previn, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, and Lee Iacocca.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 1,584 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Ameche (1908), Mark Harmon (1951), Walter Gilbert (1932), Jessica Chastain (1977), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), and Roger B. Chaffee (1935). After him are Asa Griggs Candler (1851), Brad Dourif (1950), Stan Smith (1946), Ma Barker (1873), Anthony Bourdain (1956), and Sojourner Truth (1797).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John Robert Schrieffer ranks 63. Before him are John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), and David Gross (1941). After him are Robert B. Laughlin (1950), John C. Mather (1946), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), and Frank Wilczek (1951).

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