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bednorz, johannes georg

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Bed·norz   (běd'nôrts)   
German physicist. He shared a 1987 Nobel Prize for pioneering research in superconductivity.
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Bednorz, Johannes Georg

German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller (q.v.), was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable.

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