J. Georg Bednorz

n. Johannes Georg Bednorz (born 1950), German physicist, 1987 Nobel Prize winner for Physics (together with Karl Alexander Mülle) for his research and discovery of superconductivity

Johannes Georg Bednorz (May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in high-temperature superconductivity. He was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Anton and Elisabeth Bednorz.In 1968, Bednorz started his studies in Mineralogy at the University of Münster.In 1982, Bednorz was hired by IBM to work in their Zurich laboratories. There, he joined Karl Alexander Müller's ongoing research into superconductivity.
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