K. Alexander Müller
K. Alexander Müller · Science & Medicine
Physicist; discovered high-temperature superconductivity, Nobel Prize 1987
1927, Basel, Switzerland — 2023, Zurich, Switzerland
Switzerland
K. Alexander Müller is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; discovered high-temperature superconductivity, Nobel Prize 1987
Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist who, with Georg Bednorz at IBM Zurich, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramic oxides in 1986, winning the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics after the shortest wait between discovery and award. The finding overturned assumptions about the limits of superconductivity. His mother was Jewish.
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Physicist; discovered high-temperature superconductivity, Nobel Prize 1987
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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