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Georg Bednorz

Physicist · Germany · Scientists · Born 1950 · age 76

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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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A life in dates

2020Order of Merit of North Rhine-WestphaliaAward2018Honorary Doctor of the University of MünsterAward1988EPS Europhysics PrizeAwardGreat Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward, 1988James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsAward1987Dannie Heineman PrizeAwardFritz London AwardAwardKlung Wilhelmy Science AwardAwardNobel Prize in PhysicsAwardRobert Wichard Pohl PrizeAward1986Marcel Benoist PrizeAward1950Born16 May 1950

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Awards

Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia2020
Honorary Doctor of the University of Münster2018
Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1988
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials1988
EPS Europhysics Prize1988
Nobel Prize in Physics1987
Robert Wichard Pohl Prize1987
Fritz London Award1987
Dannie Heineman Prize1987
Klung Wilhelmy Science Award1987
Marcel Benoist Prize1986
IBM Fellow
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Honorary Doctorate of Salzburg University
Honorary Doctor of the University of Regensburg
Honorary Doctor of the Tbilisi State University

About this person

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.

Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1950 · age 76

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Har Gobind KhoranaBoth received Dannie Heineman PrizeAlexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovBoth received Fritz London AwardAlbert FertBoth received EPS Europhysics PrizeBrian JosephsonBoth received Fritz London AwardCharles K. KaoBoth received James C. McGroddy Prize for New MaterialsKonstantin NovoselovBoth received EPS Europhysics Prize

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