Later, Bardeen worked with Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer.

The old theory was a triumph of solid-state physics known as the BCS model, after its creators, John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Dr. Schrieffer.

It was founded by two scientists associated with Brown University -Leon Cooper, who shared a Nobel Prize for work on superconductivity in the 1970's, and Charles Elbaum.

In 1993 Schrieffer along with Leon Cooper were awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1972, Schrieffer along with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory.

One is the molecular biologist James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA; the other is the physicist Leon Cooper, pioneer of superconductivity.

This is the BCS transition, discovered in 1957 by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer for describing superconductivity.

Other distinguished scientists and artists spoke on the relationship between science and the arts including Leon Cooper, Leon Lederman and Freeman Dyson through 1998.

The character Sheldon Cooper, featured in the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, is named in part after Leon Cooper.

BCS theory of superconductivity developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer.