BBC Visions of the Future, The Quantum Revlolution
Superconductivity was first discovered
by a Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in Leiden, Holland on April 8,
1911. It is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that occurs in certain materials as
they are cooled. As these materials cool they begin to lose their electrical
resistivity and expel their magnetic fields.
Image of
Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer “Theory of Super Conductivity.”
In 1972, Professor John Bardeen, postdoctoral
associate Leon Cooper, and graduate student J. Robert Schrieffer were awarded the
Nobel Prize in physics for developing the
BCS Theory of Superconductivity. The “BCS Theory of Superconductivity,” gives a
detailed explanation of the loss of electrical resistance in certain materials
when they are exposed to low temperatures.
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