Schrieffer

[ shree-fer ]

noun

1. John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1972.

Example Sentences

Dr. Hirsch is a bull-in-a-china-shop contrarian taking aim at B.C.S. theory, which was devised in 1957 by three physicists — John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper and J. Robert Schrieffer — to explain how superconductivity works.

From New York Times

The phenomenon remained a mystery until 1957, when physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer explained those first superconductors.

From Science Magazine

The phenomenon remained a mystery until 1957, when physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer explained those first superconductors.

From Science Magazine

The phenomenon remained a mystery until 1957, when physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer explained those first superconductors.

From Science Magazine

The phenomenon remained a mystery until 1957, when physicists John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer explained those first superconductors.

From Science Magazine