Leon N. Cooper

Leon N Cooper was born in 1930 in New York City where he studied at the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia University where he earned his Ph.D. in Physics. He is currently the Thomas J. Watson Senior Professor of Science at Brown University and Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his scientific achievements, most notably the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics (with J. Bardeen and J. R. Schrieffer) for his studies on the theory of superconductivity.