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The discoverers
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Discoverers

The superconductivity odyssey

Kamerlingh Onnes
Walther Meissner
Fritz London
Lev Landau
Alexei Abrikosov
Vitaly Ginzburg
Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer
Brian Josephson
Ivar Giaever
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
A. Muller and G. Bednorz
 

Since the discovery of superconductivity in 1911, many physicists have tried to solve all its mysteries. Thirteen of them received the Nobel Prize for their work! And many others would have probably also deserved it, because experimental discoveries on the matter have been very numerous. Here are a few of the great scientists that made this fascinating history.

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