Georg Bednorz
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He cracked open a new frontier in physics: superconductivity that works above the temperature of liquid nitrogen, turning a lab curiosity into something engineers could actually use.
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Georg Bednorz was born in Germany on 16 May 1950. Working alongside K. Alex Müller, he discovered that certain ceramics could superconduct at temperatures far higher than anyone thought possible — a find that upended decades of theory and earned them both the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. The breakthrough moved superconductivity out of the deep-freeze realm of helium and into reach of cheaper, more practical cooling. It remains one of the fastest Nobel recognitions in modern science.
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