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Currently, Leon Cooper is 94 years, 9 months and 24 days old. Leon Cooper will celebrate 95rd birthday on a Friday 28th of February 2025. Below we countdown to Leon Cooper upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Leon Cooper |
| Occupation | Scientists |
| Age | 94 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | February 28, 1930 (Bronx, New York, United States, United States) |
| Birthday | February 28 |
| Town/City | Bronx, New York, United States, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
Leon Cooper’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Leon Cooper was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, M.A. in 1953, and Ph.D. in 1954 from Columbia University. He spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study and taught at the University of Illinois and Ohio State University before coming to Brown University in 1958. He is the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science at Brown, and Director of the Institute for Brain and Neural Systems.
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) and still in print in a somewhat condensed form as Physics: Structure and Meaning (Lebanon: New Hampshire, University Press of New England, 1992).
In 1969 Cooper married Kay Allard. They had two children.
Cooper is the author of Science and Human Experience – a collection of essays, including previously unpublished material, on issues such as consciousness and the structure of space.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).
