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

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

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Author / Creator:	Fossheim, K. (Kristian)
Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Physicists -- Interviews. Physicists -- Biography. Superconductivity -- History. Physics -- History. Biography. History. Interviews.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9850814

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ISBN:	9783642360596 (electronic bk.) 3642360599 (electronic bk.) 9783642360589
Notes:	Includes 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.

Table of Contents:

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