Bednorz
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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 ceramic mix of Dr. Müller and Bednorz — lanthanum barium copper oxide — was a superconductor at slightly higher temperatures, around minus-400 degrees.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobels, promptly recognized the advance as well, bestowing the physics prize jointly on Dr. Muller and Dr. Bednorz in October 1987.
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 one dramatic development, Bednorz and Muller revived a slow-moving area of modern physics and turned it into a white-hot field of research.
From Time Magazine Archive
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