The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987
Awarded on: 1987-10-14
"for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials"
Affiliations:
- IBM Zurich Research Laboratory – Rüschlikon, Switzerland
J. Georg Bednorz
Born: 1950-05-16 in Neuenkirchen, West Germany (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (born 1950)
Biography
Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.