Bednorz, Johannes Georg

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Born: May 16, 1950 AD
Currently alive, at 61 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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