Awarded Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia in Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln (2020).
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Georg Bednorz
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.
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science · German physicist (born 1950) · physicist · also Georg Bednorz, Johannes Bednorz, Johannes Georg Bednorz, Bednorz
Born 16 May 1950 · Q76687
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Münster (2018).
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1988).
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Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1988).
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Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1988).
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1987· 7 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.
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Awarded Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (1987).
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Awarded Fritz London Award (1987).
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1987).
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Awarded Robert Wichard Pohl Prize (1987).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1987).
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Bednorz and Müller were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials
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1986· 3 entries
Awarded Marcel Benoist Prize (1986).
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Succeeded in inducing superconductivity in a lanthanum barium copper oxide (LaBaCuO, also known as LBCO)
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Published “Possible highT c superconductivity in the Ba?La?Cu?O system” in Zeitschrift f�r Physik B Condensed Matter — cited 12,937 times.
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1982· 1 entry
Bednorz joined the IBM lab
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1978· 1 entry
His future wife, Mechthild Wennemer, whom he had met in Münster, followed him to Zurich to start her own Ph
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1973· 1 entry
Bednorz came to Zurich in 1974 for six months to do the experimental part of his master’s thesis
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1972· 1 entry
His teachers Wolfgang Hoffmann and Horst Böhm arranged for him to spend the summer at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory as a visiting student
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1968· 1 entry
Bednorz enrolled at the University of Münster to study chemistry
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-05-16.
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