This changed in 1986 when Karl Alexander Müller and J. Georg Bednorz discovered lanthanum barium copper oxide (LBCO) becoming superconducting at 35 K. In numbers this was only a 12 K jump ...

Most Nobel prizes are awarded long after the dust has settled. That Georg Bednorz and Alex Müller won theirs just a year after their crucial breakthrough was a testament to the profound ...