Tag archive: superconductivity
Perrine Royole-Degieux | 1 December 2011
Granny superconductivity turns 100 this year! Learn more about "her" in the French LHC comics (BD du LHC) with Episode 1: story of a discovery and Episode 2: Gloriaaaa Conductivitaeeee, the quantum wave.
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5 May 2011
One hundred years ago, on 8 April 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and his staff at the Leiden Cryogenic Laboratory were the first to observe superconductivity. In a frozen mercury wire, contained in seven U-shaped capillaries in series, electrical resistance suddenly seemed to vanish at 4.16 K.
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Barry Barish | 5 May 2011
This year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity in 1911, the central technology employed in modern particle accelerators.
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superconducting magnet, superconductivity
5 May 2011
These are the electrifying moments to make a scientist’s life worth living: take up work at a laboratory, carry out measurement series and, suddenly, see absolutely unexpected results – a tiny detail which is wrong. The measurements are repeated and tested for possible mistakes – but the unexpected proves true.
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