Bednorz, Johannes Georg
Born: May 16, 1950 AD
Currently alive, at 58 years of age.
Nationality:
German
Categories:
Physicists
1950 - Born on the 16th of May in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
1968 - He started his studies in Mineralogy at the University of Münster.
1982 - Hired by IBM to work in their Zurich laboratories.
1983 - He and Müller began a systematic study of the electrical properties of ceramics.
1986 - Succeeded in inducing superconductivity in a barium lanthanum copper oxide.
1987 - Nobel Prize in Physics for work in high-temperature superconductivity.
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