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Leon Cooper

American physicist1930 to 2024

Wikidata names Robert Serber as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Robert Serber

Students on Wikidata5

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Alan Bruce Saul
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Brian S. Blais
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Elie Lucien Bienenstock
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Michael Peter Perrone
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Nathan Intrator

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataRobert Serber
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJ. Robert Oppenheimerstated by WikidataJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck
3 steps up
stated by WikidataEdwin C. Kemblestated by WikidataMax Born
4 steps up
stated by WikidataCarl David Tolmé Rungestated by WikidataPercy Williams Bridgman

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 6 people: 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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until 1954
Columbia University
studied
undated
Bronx High School of Science
studied
undated
Brown University
worked
undated
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
worked

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher
fields: theoretical physics, physics, superconductivity
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965, Comstock Prize in Physics, 1968, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1972, doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, 1977, Fellow of the American Physical Society, John Jay Award
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 1975, American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science
notable works: Cooper pair, BCM theory, BCS theory
Wikipedia: in 75 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaLeon Cooper
stated by WikidataWikidataQ82563
stated by WikidataVIAF91305453
stated by WikidataGND128723211
stated by WikidataIdRef08962596X
stated by WikidataISNI0000000081638938

papers

stated by WikidataDBLP99/6445
stated by WikidataScopus55822664500

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project14375

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q82563,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Leon Cooper: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q82563},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Leon Cooper: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q82563