2003
Vortices give guidance
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA Landau’s pupil, Alexei Abrikosov, realised almost immediately that Ginzburg and Landau’s theory can also describe those superconductors (type II) that can coexist with strong magnetic fields. According to Abrikosov’s theory this occurs because…
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Anthony J. Leggett – Biographical
Biographical
I was born in Camberwell, South London, on the 26th of March, 1938. I am told I only made it into the world on the date in question by seven minutes, thereby exhibiting at this early stage the tendency to procrastination which I fear has characterized much of my subsequent career. Not a great deal…
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