page_title: John Robert Schrieffer
hierarchical_section_title: John Robert Schrieffer
caption_attribution_description: English: John Robert Schrieffer
context_page_description: John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist. With John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, he was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was known for developing the BCS theory. It was the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.
  In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.
  Schrieffer died on July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88.
context_section_description: John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist. With John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, he was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was known for developing the BCS theory. It was the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity. 
  In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people.
  Schrieffer died on July 27, 2019 in Tallahassee, Florida at the age of 88.
caption: Schrieffer in 1972
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