Loomis Lab (Urbana, Illinois)

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Physics Building

There is a plaque near the building entrance that reads:

THEORY OF
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Theoretical physicist John Bardeen was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field. His first, in 1956, shared with Walter Brattain and William Shockley, was for the invention of the transistor, the basic component of electronic information technologies. His second, here at the University of Illinois in 1972, shared with postdoctoral associate Leon N. Cooper and graduate student J. Robert Schrieffer, was for the explanation of superconductivity, a state of matter first observed in 1911 in which materials lose all their electrical resistance at very low temperatures. The BCS theory, announced in 1957 and based on a model in which electrons form bound pairs, explains fundamental processes in solid-state physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and particle physics.

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