Bednorz
Americannoun
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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
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
When Bednorz tested the compound, he was startled to see signs of super-conductivity at an unprecedented 35 K, by far the highest temperature at which anyone had observed the phenomenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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