In my teaching at both Cal Tech and Rutgers I find it convenient to refer my students to Cooper because it enables them to become familiar with some of the greatest of human intellectual feats without the need for calculus. Cooper delivers the essence of physics without popularizing, as only a Nobel Laureate can.
Leon N. Cooper
Leon Cooper was born in 1930 in New York where he attended Columbia University (A.B. 1951; A.M. 1953; Ph.D. 1954). He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (1954-55) after which he was a research associate of Illinois (1955-57) and later an assistant professor at the Ohio State University (1957-58). Professor Cooper joined Brown University in 1958 where he became Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor (1966-74) and where he is presently the Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor …