Nobel Laureate Scientist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. He received his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1958, and beginning in 1963, he performed research in solid-state physics at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, heading the physics department there for several years and becoming an IBM fellow in 1982. In the early 1980s, he began his research on substances that would become superconductive at higher temperatures than had theretofore been obtained. He recruited fellow physicist J. Georg Bednorz to help him in his research and in 1986 they succeeded in achieving superconductivity in a recently developed barium-lanthanum-copper oxide at a temperature of 35 K. This was higher than previous attempts. This set off other experiments that raised the temperature for superconductivity. In 1987, he, along with Bednorz, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
Nobel Laureate Scientist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. He received his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1958, and beginning in 1963, he performed research in solid-state physics at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory, heading the physics department there for several years and becoming an IBM fellow in 1982. In the early 1980s, he began his research on substances that would become superconductive at higher temperatures than had theretofore been obtained. He recruited fellow physicist J. Georg Bednorz to help him in his research and in 1986 they succeeded in achieving superconductivity in a recently developed barium-lanthanum-copper oxide at a temperature of 35 K. This was higher than previous attempts. This set off other experiments that raised the temperature for superconductivity. In 1987, he, along with Bednorz, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.
Bio by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
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