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| | Johannes Georg Bednorz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Johannes Georg Bednorz (May 16, 1950 in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German physicist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in high-temperature superconductivity. |
 | | In 1982, Bednorz was hired by IBM to work in their Zurich laboratories. |
 | | In 1983, Bednorz and Müller began a systematic study of the electrical properties of ceramics formed from transition metal oxides, and in 1986, they succeeded in inducing superconductivity in a barium lanthanum copper oxide (BaLaCuO, also known as LBCO); the oxide's critical temperature was 35 K, a full 12 kelvins higher than the previous record. |
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