Georg Bednorz
Johannes Georg Bednorz | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Thesis | Isovalent and heterovalent ionic substitution in SrTiO3 (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Heini Gränicher, K. Alex Müller |
Johannes Georg Bednorz (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈbɛdnɔʁt͡s] ⓘ; born 16 May 1950) 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.
Life and work
Bednorz was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to elementary-school teacher Anton and piano teacher Elisabeth Bednorz, as the youngest of four children. His parents were both from Silesia in Central Europe, but were forced to move westwards in turbulences of World War II.[1]
As a child, his parents tried to get him interested in classical music, but he was more practically inclined, preferring to work on motorcycles and cars. (Although as a teenager he did eventually learn to play the violin and trumpet.) In high school he developed an interest in the natural sciences, focusing on chemistry, which he could learn in a hands-on manner through experiments.[1]
In 1968, Bednorz enrolled at the
After another visit in 1973, he came to Zurich in 1974 for six months to do the experimental part of his diploma work. Here he grew crystals of SrTiO3, a ceramic material belonging to the family of
In 1982, after obtaining his PhD, he joined the IBM lab. There, he joined Müller's ongoing research on
In 1987, Bednorz and Müller were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials".[4] In the same year Bednorz was appointed an IBM Fellow.
Awards and honors
- Thirteenth Fritz London Memorial Award (1987)
- Dannie Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Academy (1987)[1]
- Robert Wichard Pohl Prize (1987)[1]
- Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (1988)[1]
- Marcel Benoist Prize (1986)
- Nobel Prize for Physics(1987)
- James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials(1988)
- Minnie Rosen Award (1988)[1]
- Viktor Mortiz Goldschmidt Prize[1]
- Otto Klung Prize (1987)
- National Academy of Sciences foreign associate (2018)
- Honorable member of the Swiss Physical Society since 2011
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Georg Bednorz on Nobelprize.org , accessed 20 April 2020 including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 Perovskite-Type Oxides – The New Approach to High-Tc Superconductivity
- ^ a b "Georg Bednorz (1950–Present)". Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism. Magnet Lab. Archived from the original on January 9, 2008.
- S2CID 118314311.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987. nobelprize.org
External links
- Pioneers in Electricity and Magnetism – Johannes Georg Bednorz, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
- Georg Bednorz on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1987 Perovskite-Type Oxides – The New Approach to High-Tc Superconductivity