biography
| name: |
Müller, K Alexander
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pronunciation:
[müler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Basel, N Switzerland. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, worked at the Batelle Institute in Geneva, then (1963) joined the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory at Rüschlikon. A specialist in oxides, he was joined by Georg Bednorz in 1982 to study superconductivity in these materials. In 1986 they demonstrated that some mixed-phase oxides would superconduct above 30 K, and by 1987 related materials were found to show the effect up to 90 K, at a temperature which offered novel possibilities in practical electronics because materials can be superconducting when cooled with liquid nitrogen rather than expensive liquid helium. They shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987. |
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