What is John Robert Schrieffer?
{{Infobox scientist |name = John Robert Schrieffer |image = John Robert Schrieffer 1972.jpg |caption = Schrieffer in 1972 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|05|31}} |birth_place = [[Oak Park, Illinois]], U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|07|27|1931|05|31}} |death_place = [[Tallahassee, Florida]], U.S. |nationality = American |field = Physics |work_institutions = [[University of Pennsylvania]]<br />[[University of California, Santa Barbara]]<br />[[University of Florida]]<br />[[Florida State University]]<br />[[University of Birmingham]] |alma_mater = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]<br />[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]] |doctoral_advisor = [[John Bardeen]] |doctoral_students = |known_for = |prizes = {{Nowrap|[[National Medal of Science]] {{Small|(1983)}}<br />[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{Small|(1972)}}<br />[[Comstock Prize in Physics]] {{Small|(1968)}}}} }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''John Robert Schrieffer''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ʃ|r|iː|f|ər}}; May 31, 1931&nbsp;– July 27, 2019) was an American physicist. With [[John Bardeen]] and [[Leon Cooper]], he was a recipient of the 1972 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. He was known for developing the [[BCS theory]]. It was the first successful [[quantum theory]] of [[superconductivity]]. In 2005, Schrieffer fell asleep while driving and received a sentence of two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter which killed one, and injured seven other people. Schrieffer died on July 27, 2019 in [[Tallahassee, Florida]] at the age of 88.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/07/27/us/ap-us-obit-schrieffer.html|title=Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Schrieffer Dies in Florida|work=[[The Associated Press]]|date=July 27, 2019|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 8, 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728021653/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/07/27/us/ap-us-obit-schrieffer.html