Superconductivity and the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize
in Physics 1913
"for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures
which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
The Nobel Prize
in Physics 1972
"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually
called the BCS-theory"
John Bardeen
Leon Neil Cooper
John Robert Schrieffer
The Nobel Prize
in Physics 1973
"for [his] experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in
... superconductors"
Ivar Giaever
"for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent
through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are
generally known as the Josephson effects"
Brian David Josephson
The Nobel Prize
in Physics 1987
"for their important break-through in the discovery of
superconductivity in ceramic materials"
J. Georg Bednorz
K. Alexander Müller
The
Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and
superfluids"
Alexei A. Abrikosov
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Anthony J. Leggett

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