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Superconductivity : discoveries and discoverers : ten physics Nobel Laureates tell their story / Kristian Fossheim.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2013.Description: xiii, 140 p. : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783642360589 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 537.62309 23 F752
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Vitaly L. Ginzburg: The Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Superconductivity -- 3. Alexei A. Abrikosov: The Magnetic Structure of Type II Superconductors -- 4. Leon N. Cooper: The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity -- 5. John Robert Schrieffer: The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity -- 6. Ivar Giaever: Single Particle Tunnelling: Confirming the BCS-Theory -- 7. Brian D. Josephson: Cooper Pair Tunnelling: The Josephson Effects -- 8. Philip W. Anderson: Superconductivity from a Broader Perspective -- 9. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: The Orsay Group on Superconductivity -- 10. Johannes Georg Bednorz: Discovery of Cuprate Superconductors -- 11. K. Alexander Müller: Discovery of Cuprate Superconductors -- 12. The Anderson-Higgs Mechanism for the Meissner Effect in Superconductors -- 13. Concluding Remarks-- Index.
Summary: This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. We follow one of physics and science history's most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present, not as a history book in the usual sense, but through close ups of the leading characters and their role in that story, the Nobel laureates, who were still among us in the years 2001-2004 when the main round of interviews was carried out. Since then two of them already passed away. For each one of the 10 laureates, the author tells their story by direct quotation from interviews in their own words. Each chapter treats one laureate. The author first gives a brief account of the laureates' scientific background and main contribution. Then each laureate tells his own story in his own words. This book is unique in its approach to science history.
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Includes index.

1. Introduction --
2. Vitaly L. Ginzburg: The Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Superconductivity --
3. Alexei A. Abrikosov: The Magnetic Structure of Type II Superconductors --
4. Leon N. Cooper: The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity --
5. John Robert Schrieffer: The Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity --
6. Ivar Giaever: Single Particle Tunnelling: Confirming the BCS-Theory --
7. Brian D. Josephson: Cooper Pair Tunnelling: The Josephson Effects --
8. Philip W. Anderson: Superconductivity from a Broader Perspective --
9. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: The Orsay Group on Superconductivity --
10. Johannes Georg Bednorz: Discovery of Cuprate Superconductors --
11. K. Alexander Müller: Discovery of Cuprate Superconductors --
12. The Anderson-Higgs Mechanism for the Meissner Effect in Superconductors --
13. Concluding Remarks--
Index.

This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. We follow one of physics and science history's most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present, not as a history book in the usual sense, but through close ups of the leading characters and their role in that story, the Nobel laureates, who were still among us in the years 2001-2004 when the main round of interviews was carried out. Since then two of them already passed away. For each one of the 10 laureates, the author tells their story by direct quotation from interviews in their own words. Each chapter treats one laureate. The author first gives a brief account of the laureates' scientific background and main contribution. Then each laureate tells his own story in his own words. This book is unique in its approach to science history.

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