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Also Known As	Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory

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superconductivity Meissner effect Josephson effect

Key People

Bardeen.

John Bardeen

American physicist

Ivar Giaever, 1966.

Ivar Giaever

American physicist

Schrieffer, John Robert

John Robert Schrieffer

American physicist

Leon N. Cooper

American physicist