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Johannes Georg Bednorz

German physicist
Date of Birth:
Country: Germany

Content:
  1. Biography of Johannes Georg Bednorz
  2. Research at IBM
  3. Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity
  4. Later Career

Biography of Johannes Georg Bednorz

Early Life and Education

Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics.

He was born on May 16, , in Neuenkirchen, Germany. Bednorz attended the Martinum Gymnasium in Emsdetten, where he completed his secondary education and preparatory course for university admission (Abitur).

In , he enrolled at the University of Münster in Germany.

However, due to feeling uncomfortable among the large number of students and failing the entrance exam for chemistry laboratory work, Bednorz switched his major to mineralogy. Under the guidance of Professor Wolfgang Goffman, he wrote his diploma thesis on synthetic perovskites in the field of crystallography.

Research at IBM

In the summer of , Bednorz worked as an inter