Brian Josephson
Welsh physicist
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Born 1940 · age 86United Kingdom
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Physicist who won a 1973 Nobel Prize for predicting the Josephson effect as a Cambridge PhD student—a quantum tunneling phenomenon that became foundational to superconductivity research.
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Brian David Josephson is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a Ph.D. student at Cambridge.
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