Leon Cooper
American physicist
- Born
- 28 February 1930, New York City
- Died
- 23 October 2024, aged 94
- Birth name
- Leon N. Kupchik
Leon N. Cooper (February 28, 1930 – October 23, 2024) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer to develop the BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. In neuroscience, Cooper co-developed the BCM theory of synaptic plasticity.
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