Landmark idea of superconductivity turns 50

Leon Cooper says he knew it was important when he and University of Illinois colleagues John Bardeen and Robert Schrieffer came up with their landmark theory of superconductivity 50 years ago.

He even thought what came to be known as the BCS Theory was probably worth a Nobel prize.

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