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Karl Alexander Müller 1927-, Swiss physicist, Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1958. In 1983, Müller and co-researcher Johannes Georg Bednorz discovered superconductivity in a ceramic fragment at temperatures much higher than had been previously thought possible. Their discovery made possible applications in power lines, generators, and computers. In 1987, Bednorz and Müller were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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superconductivity
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...zero. A major breakthrough occurred in 1986 when Karl Alexander Müller and J. Georg Bednorz announced that they had discovered...temperatures exceeding 70°K. The work of Müller and Bednorz, which earned them the Nobel Prize... |
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Nobel Prizes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Fischer Sir Chandrasekhara V. Raman Karl Landsteiner Sinclair Lewis 1931...I. Virtanen Wolfgang Pauli Sir Alexander Fleming E. B. Chain Sir Howard...Tiselius P. M. S. Blackett Paul H. Müller T. S. Eliot 1949 John Boyd Orr... |
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