Born: 1940-01-04 in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: Welsh physicist (born 1940)
Brian David Josephson is a Welsh physicist and is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22 year-old PhD student at Cambridge.
Awarded on: 1973-10-23
"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"
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