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High-Tc superconductivity

Award plaque Lectures from the workshop in Oberlech, Austria, 1988

Following the 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in (La, Ba)2CuO4, worldwide interest in this field increased enormously. In 1988 the IBM Europe Institute brought together leading theoretical and experimental scientists for a workshop in Oberlech, Austria. All except two of the lectures presented at that workshop were published in a special issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development.

Originally published:

IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 33, Issue 3, pp. 197-404 (1989).

Significance:

In 1986 J. G. Bednorz and K. A. Müller showed that a new class of metallic perovskite-type copper-based oxides had superconducting transition temperatures of 35K. This discovery sparked an enormous amount of research and development worldwide. In 1987 Bednorz and Müller were awarded the Nobel Prize. In order to further advance this field after the initial outpouring of theoretical and experimental work, the IBM Europe Institute organized a workshop in Oberlech, Austria. Bednorz and Müller were the guest editors of this issue of the Journal, which published 26 papers based on the lectures presented at the workshop.

Comments:

See The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987, awarded to J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller.


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