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For their work on the BCS Theory, in which year were Cooper and his colleagues awarded the Nobel Prize?
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John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 for their work on the BCS Theory of superconductivity. This theory explains how superconductivity occurs in metals, and has been used to develop new superconducting materials with applications in power generation, medicine, and other fields.
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