Memorial Page for John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist
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John Robert Schrieffer (* May 31, 1931 in Oak Park; † July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee) was an american physicist. He was 88 years old. His education included University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Eustis High School. He received 6 awards, including Nobel Prize in Physics, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
Life Events
14 EventsBorn in Oak Park, Cook County
1931University of Chicago
1957until 1960
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
1959until 1962
University of Pennsylvania
1962until 1979
Guggenheim Fellowship
1966Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
1968Comstock Prize in Physics
1968Nobel Prize in Physics
1972Exxon Research & Engineering Company
1979until 2006
University of California, Santa Barbara
1980until 1997
National Medal of Science
1983Los Alamos National Laboratory
1991until 2006
Florida State University
1992until 2019
Died in Tallahassee, Leon County
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John Robert Schrieffer. Forever remembered.