Brian D. Josephson
Biographical
| Date of birth: 4 January 1940
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| Place of birth: Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
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| Education | |
| Cardiff High School
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| University of Cambridge, B.A. |
1960
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| University of Cambridge, M.A., Ph.D |
1964
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| Academic Career |
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| Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge |
1962
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| Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois |
1964-65
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| Assistant Director of Research, University of Cambridge |
1967-72
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| NSF Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow, Cornell University |
1971
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| Reader in Physics, University of Cambridge |
1972-74
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| Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge |
1974-
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| Visiting Professor – Computer Science Department, Wayne State University, Detroit |
1983
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| Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
1984
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| Visiting Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla |
1987
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| Awards |
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| New Scientist |
1969
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| Research Corporation |
1969
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| Fritz London |
1970
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| Medals |
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| Guthrie (Institute of Physics) 1972 |
1972
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| van der Pol 1972 |
1972
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| Elliott Cresson (Franklin Institute) 1972 |
1972
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| Hughes (Royal Society) 1972 |
1972
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| Holweck (Institute of Physics and French Institute of Physics) 1972 |
1972
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| Faraday (Institution of Electrical Engineers) 1982 |
1982
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| Sir George Thomson (Institute of Measurement and Control) 1984 |
1984
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| Other Information |
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| Fellow of the Institute of Physics |
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| Honorary D.Sc., University of Wales 1974 |
1974
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| Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1974 |
1974
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| Honorary Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 1982 |
1982
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| Honorary D.Sc., University of Exeter 1983 |
1983
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| Invited presentation on subject of ‘Higher States of Consciousness’, to US Congressional Committee 1983 |
1983
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