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Leon Cooper

1930 - 2024

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Leon N. Cooper (né Kupchik; February 28, 1930 – October 23, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon Cooper has received more than 295,378 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Leon Cooper is the 216th most popular physicist (down from 169th in 2019), the 850th most popular biography from United States (down from 725th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Physicist.

Leon Cooper is most famous for his work in quantum physics and the theory of superconductivity.

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  • 63.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Leon Cooper ranks 216 out of 851. Before him are David J. Thouless, David Lee, Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, Abdus Salam, and Jerome Isaac Friedman. After him are Clifford Shull, Chien-Shiung Wu, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, and John Clauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Leon Cooper ranks 53. Before him are Lorin Maazel, Robert Wagner, Jean Rochefort, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carlos Kleiber, and Jerome Isaac Friedman. After him are Adunis, Moustapha Akkad, Yves Chauvin, Tippi Hedren, Anton LaVey, and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon. Among people deceased in 2024, Leon Cooper ranks 44. Before him are Zvi Zamir, Hage Geingob, Herbert Kroemer, César Luis Menotti, Seiji Ozawa, and Andrew Schally. After him are James Earl Jones, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Maurizio Pollini, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Roberto Cavalli, and Philip Zimbardo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leon Cooper ranks 850 out of 20,380. Before him are Benny Goodman (1909), Martin Seligman (1942), Robert Venturi (1925), Lex Barker (1919), John J. Pershing (1860), and Dorothea Lange (1895). After him are Clifford Shull (1915), Morgan Fairchild (1950), Ronnie Coleman (1964), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Bing Crosby (1903), and Powers Boothe (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Leon Cooper ranks 41. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Robert Hofstadter (1915), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), Arthur Ashkin (1922), and Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930). After him are Clifford Shull (1915), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), John L. Hall (1934), John Clauser (1942), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), and Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932).

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