In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They have two children.[12]
He has carried out research at various institutions including the
Institute for Advanced Study and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (
CERN) in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Cooper is the author of
Science and Human Experience – a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space.
(Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Cooper is the author of an unconventional liberal-arts physics textbook, originally An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics (Harper and Row, 1968)[15] and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as Physics: Structure and Meaning (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992).
^Many printed materials, including the
Nobel Prizewebsite, have referred to Cooper as "Leon Neil Cooper". However, the middle initial
N does not stand for Neil, or for any other name. The correct form of the name is, thus, "Leon N Cooper", with no
abbreviation dots[citation needed]
^Cushing, James T. (1978). "Review of An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics by Leon N. Cooper". American Journal of Physics. 46 (1): 114–115.
Bibcode:
1978AmJPh..46..114C.
doi:
10.1119/1.11116.
External links
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Leon Cooper on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1972 Microscopic Quantum Interference Effects in the Theory of Superconductivity