Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Illinois
- Date: February-July, 1957
Article abstract: Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer were the first physicists to explain how some metals, approaching absolute zero (−237.59 degrees Celsius), lose their resistance to electricity.
Summary of Event
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, later a Nobel laureate in physics, observed in his study of the electrical resistance of mercury, as its temperature was lowered to the vicinity of absolute zero, that at −237.59 degrees Celsius, resistance decreased so markedly that it could not be measured with the instruments available....
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