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
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
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 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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