The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987

J. Georg Bednorz

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Prize share: 1/2

K. Alexander Müller

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 was awarded jointly to J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials."

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