Bardeen, J.L., L.N. Cooper, and J.R. Schrieffer. “Theory of Superconductivity” in the Physical Review, volume 108, Number 5, 1957, p.1175-1204 in the issue of pp 1357-1682, in the bound volume for #108, pp 913-1696, for November-December 1957. In a sturdy and attractive red cloth. Provenance: National Bureau of Standards Library, with their name gilt stamped on the spine bottom. save for some remnants of the paper spine label, this is a lovely, fresh copy. Offered with the issues # 4, 5, and 6 bound together, with their original wrappers bound in at the end. Each wrapper cover has a somewhat faded and small rubber stamp of the NBS $750 .
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 was awarded jointly to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory", a classic foundation paper of superconductivity and referenced some 13,000+ times.
"The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory (BCS), published in July 1957, proved to be the triumphant solution of the problem which for four and a half decades had stumped all the best theorists in the world."--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
"BCS theory or Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory (named after John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer) is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's 1911 discovery. The theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by a condensation of Cooper pairs into a boson-like state. The theory is also used in nuclear physics to describe the pairing interaction between nucleons in an atomic nucleus."--Wikipedia
“BCS theory, in physics, a comprehensive theory developed in 1957 by the American physicists John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, and John R. Schrieffer (their surname initials providing the designation BCS) to explain the behaviour of superconducting materials. Superconductors abruptly lose all resistance to the flow of an electric current when they are cooled to temperatures near absolute zero.” Encyclopedia Britannica
"The turn in the team’s work on superconductivity came in the last days of January 1957, soon after Bardeen returned from Stockholm. While riding on a subway in New Jersey, Schrieffer wrote down a promising expression for the superconducting ground state wave function. Recognizing the implications, Bardeen moved the team into an intense period of work in which the three feverishly computed all the relevant experimental quantities, including the energy gap and the second-order phase transition. The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory (BCS), published in July 1957, proved to be the triumphant solution of the problem which for four and a half decades had stumped all the best theorists in the world."--Dictionary of Scientific Biography
See also the very extensive BCS 50 Years by Leon Cooper and D. Feldman, from World Scientific. (Cooper recalls, for example, that when John Bardeen was looking for a post doc to work with him on superconductivity in 1955, that he had never heard of superconductivity before.)
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