John Robert Schrieffer

By: Tyler Schuttloffel

His Life• He was born in Oak Park Illinois.• Born on May 31, 1931.• Graduated in Eustis High School in 1949.

Undergrad Studies

• 1949 he went to the Massachuestts Institute of Technology

• Majored in Electrical engineering for two years– Change to physics junior year– Wrote bachelor’s thesis on the multiple

structure in heavy atoms

Graduate Studies

• University of Illinois– Researched with professor John Bardeen– Worked on problem with electrical conduction

on semiconductor surface– Therd year developed the theory of

superconductivity

In the mean time

• 1957-1958 was a National Science Foundation member

• 1958-1959 assistant professor at the University of Chicago

careers

• 1959 University of Illinois• 1960 Bohr Institute• 1962 University of Pennsylvania in

Philadelphia– 1964 Mary Amanda Wood Professor in

Physics

Careers Continued

• 1980 University of California in Sana Barbara– Chanseller Professor in 1984– Director of the Institute of theoretical Physics

in 1984-1989• 1992 Flordia State University

– Chief Scientist of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Memberships

• American Academy of Arts and Science• National Academy of Science• American Philosophical Society • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and

Letters• Academy of Science of the USSR

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship• Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics

Prize• Comstock Prize• National Academy of Science

• The nobel prize in Physics• John Ericesson Medal

bibliography

• http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1972/schrieffer-bio.html