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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

The Nobel Committee in 1987 lauded Dr. Müller and Bednorz for their “audacity to concentrate on new paths” and said that it merited “one of the most immediate decisions in the history of the award.”

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

In April 1986, Muller and Bednorz finally submitted the findings to the German journal Zeitschrift fur Physik, which published it five months later.

From Time Magazine Archive

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