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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

Dr. Müller said it took only two hours to persuade Bednorz to join him in experimenting with ceramics in 1983.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

He turned out to be wrong, but he and Dr. Bednorz learned some valuable lessons and set about creating and testing other ceramics.

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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