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Bednorz

American  
[bed-nawrts] / ˈbɛd nɔrts /

noun

  1. J(ohannes) Georg born 1950, German physicist who, with K. Alex Müller, discovered superconductivity in ceramic materials: shared Nobel Prize in Physics 1987.


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That assumption changed in the late 1980s when Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller discovered copper-oxide superconductors, also known as cuprates, that exhibited high-temperature superconductivity under normal atmospheric pressure.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

In Nobel terms, the 1987 physics prize to Dr. Müller and fellow IBM researcher J. Georg Bednorz was a rare fast-track decision.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

To work with him, he recruited J. Georg Bednorz, whom he had advised on his Ph.D. work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

In 1986, the I.B.M. researchers Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller discovered ceramics that acted as radically more practical superconductors.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014

Says Bednorz: "As outsiders in the superconductor area, we could afford to tackle unconventional ideas."

From Time Magazine Archive

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