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Leon Cooper
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The long and imposing list of physicists (among them Bohr, Heisenberg and Feynman) who had tried or were trying their hand at superconductivity should have given me pause.
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Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)
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Lived 1930–2024, aged 94United States
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He explained why certain metals lose all electrical resistance at extreme cold — a quantum puzzle that had stumped physics for half a century.
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Leon N. Cooper was born Leon Kupchik on February 28, 1930. Working with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, he developed the concept of Cooper pairs — electrons that bind together at low temperatures — and together the three built the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity, work that earned them the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. Later Cooper turned to neuroscience, where he co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity, a model for how connections between neurons strengthen or weaken with use. He died on October 23, 2024.
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How do we get emotions and feelings out of neurons which, presumably, don't have emotions and feelings?
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