Brian Josephson

Welsh physicist

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    Born 1940
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    2019
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A Nobel laureate at 33 for predicting how electrons tunnel between superconductors, then spent the next half-century pursuing telepathy, water memory, and the quantum basis of consciousness — drawing scorn from the same physics establishment that once pinned a medal on him.

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Brian Josephson was a Ph.D. student at Cambridge in 1962 when he discovered the effect that now bears his name: a prediction about electron behavior in superconductors that earned him a share of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. He stayed at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory for his entire career, becoming a Fellow of Trinity College that same year and serving as Professor of Physics from 1974 to 2007. In the early 1970s he took up Transcendental Meditation and pivoted toward the margins: he founded the Mind–Matter Unification Project to investigate intellige…

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Samkya and Vedanta propound the evolution of universe in it inanimate and animate aspects, more comprehensively than modem science does.
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