Josephson wrote a supportive obituary in the Guardian, and had published in Nature a letter complaining that its obituary had failed to give Fleischmann due credit
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Brian David Josephson
Brian David Josephson is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge. 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 Ph.D. student at Cambridge.
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Born 4 January 1940 · Q181363
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2012· 1 entry
2010· 1 entry
That Josephson has long been one of physics' "more colourful figures
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2006· 1 entry
The Hermann Staudinger Lecture in 2009 and the Sir Nevill Mott Lecture in 2010
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2004· 1 entry
Josephson criticised an experiment by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry to test claims by Russian schoolgirl Natasha Demkina that she could see inside people's bodies using a special kind of vision
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2002· 1 entry
Told Physics World: "Future science will consider quantum mechanics as the phenomenology of particular kinds of organised complex system
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2001· 1 entry
When, in a Royal Mail booklet celebrating the Nobel Prize's centenary, Josephson wrote that Britain was at the forefront of research into telepathy
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1983· 1 entry
The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1984, and the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1987
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1982· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1982).
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1980· 2 entries
For complaining to The New York Review of Books, along with three other physicists, about an article by J
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To build a prototype of a computer that would be up to 100 times faster than the IBM 3033 mainframe
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1979· 1 entry
Took up a more advanced form of TM, known as the TM-Sidhi program
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1978· 1 entry
Publishing the proceedings as Consciousness and the Physical World (1980), with neuroscientist V
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1976· 1 entry
Josephson travelled to California at the invitation of one of the Fundamental Fysiks Group members, Jack Sarfatti, who introduced him to others including laser physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, and quantum phys
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1975· 1 entry
Of the Maharishi European Research University in the Netherlands, part of the TM movement
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1974· 1 entry
Angered scientists during a colloquium of molecular and cellular biologists in Versailles by inviting them to read the Bhagavad Gita (5th – 2nd century BCE) and the work of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the TM
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1973· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1973).
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Awarded Holweck Prize (1973).
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Gave Josephson the freedom to work in less orthodox areas, and he became increasingly involved—including during science conferences, to the irritation of fellow scientists—in talking about meditation, telepathy, and high
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing the $122,000 award with two other scientists who had also worked on quantum tunnelling
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1972· 4 entries
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1972).
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Won Hughes Medal (1972).
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Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1972).
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Became Reader in Physics, and in 1974 was appointed Professor of Physics, a position he held until his retirement in 2007
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1971· 1 entry
Began practising Transcendental Meditation (TM)
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded Fritz London Award (1970).
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And was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship by Cornell University the same year
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1967· 1 entry
Where he remained a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group for the rest of his career
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1964· 1 entry
With a thesis titled Non-linear conduction in superconductors
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1962· 1 entry
That he carried out the research that led to his discovery of the Josephson effect; the Cavendish Laboratory unveiled a plaque on the Mond Building dedicated to the discovery in November 2012
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1960· 1 entry
And became a research student in Cambridge's Mond Laboratory on the old Cavendish site, where he was supervised by Brian Pippard
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1957· 1 entry
Went up to Cambridge, where he initially read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-01-04.
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1937· 1 entry
To fund parapsychology research, is still administered by the college
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1912· 1 entry
By Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) to explain observations that were otherwise inexplicable, which was resisted and ridiculed until evidence led to its acceptance after Wegener's death
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