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Superconductor Smackdown: Breakthrough or ‘Probable Fraud’? (#309)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The History of the Nobel Prize

Bardeen Cooper and Shriefern discovered the effect that allowed a lattice material to create the bonding between otherwise repulsive electronic, electron pairs in 1957. By then the race was on to get higher and higher temperatures because it was known for a long time that you could get tremendous number of applications from superconductivity if applied to technological applications. The year after they went on about prize, which is very rare. Alfred Nobel stipulated in his will as I point out, losing the Nobel Prize, that he wanted the Nobel Prize to go to somebody who demanded discovery on an invention in the preceding year.

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