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Prize category:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973

Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson

Brian David Josephson

Born: 4 January 1940, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"

Field: Condensed matter physics, semiconductors

Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth: 4 January 1940
Place of birth: Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

Education
Cardiff High School
University of Cambridge, B.A.	1960
University of Cambridge, M.A., Ph.D	1964

Academic Career
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge	1962
Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois	1964-65
Assistant Director of Research, University of Cambridge	1967-72
NSF Senior Foreign Scientist Fellow, Cornell University	1971
Reader in Physics, University of Cambridge	1972-74
Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge	1974-
Visiting Professor - Computer Science Department, Wayne State University, Detroit	1983
Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	1984
Visiting Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla	1987

Awards
New Scientist	1969
Research Corporation	1969
Fritz London	1970

Medals
Guthrie (Institute of Physics) 1972	1972
van der Pol 1972	1972
Elliott Cresson (Franklin Institute) 1972	1972
Hughes (Royal Society) 1972	1972
Holweck (Institute of Physics and French Institute of Physics) 1972	1972
Faraday (Institution of Electrical Engineers) 1982	1982
Sir George Thomson (Institute of Measurement and Control) 1984	1984

Other Information
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Honorary D.Sc., University of Wales 1974	1974
Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1974	1974
Honorary Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 1982	1982
Honorary D.Sc., University of Exeter 1983	1983
Invited presentation on subject of 'Higher States of Consciousness', to US Congressional Committee 1983	1983

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1971-1980, Editor Stig Lundqvist, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973

Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

Leo Esaki

Ivar Giaever

Brian D. Josephson

Curriculum Vitae