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Superconductivity

In Our Time

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Introduction

In 1911 the Dutch physicist Heike Kamaling Eunes made a remarkable discovery that nobody predicted and that non-consense fully explain. When he'd lowered the temperature of mercury close to absolute zero and run an electric current through it, he found not that it had low resistance, it had no resistance. A century later, and this has already been applied to make MRI scanners and to speed particles through the large Hadron collider. With me to discuss superconductivity are Nigel Hussey, professor of experimental condensed metaphysics at the University of Bristol and Radboud University. Sushitra Sebastian, professor of physics at the Kevin Digital Laboratory at theUniversity of Cambridge; Sebum Gl

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