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Along with Bardeen, who shared the Nobel Prize for superconductivity?

  • Isaac Newton

  • James Watson

  • Cooper and Schrieffer

  • Bohr and Rutherford

Answer

The 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer for their development of the BCS theory of superconductivity, which provides a microscopic explanation of the electrical resistance exhibited at extremely low temperatures in certain materials.
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