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1987 Nobel Prize in Physics Updated 2025-07-16

This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.

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No pun intended Updated 2025-07-16

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On Urban Dictionary: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no%20pun%20intended

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Physical Review Letters Updated 2025-07-16

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As indicated by its name, the journal contains mostly short letters sent to the editor, often 2 or 3 pages long, which allows for a faster publication cycle and dissemination of new results. This is notably useful for experimental physics.

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Physics Letters Updated 2025-07-16

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Paper by Brian Josephson Updated 2025-07-16

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Physics journal Updated 2025-07-16

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The strongest are:

early 20th century: Annalen der Physik: God OG physics journal of the early 20th century, before the Nazis fucked German science back to the Middle Ages
20s/30s: Nature started picking up strong
40s/50s: American journals started to come in strong after all the genius Jews escaped from Germany, notably Physical Review Letters

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Fugging, Upper Austria Updated 2026-08-21

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Austria Updated 2025-07-16

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Mond Laboratory Updated 2026-08-21

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University of Cambridge laboratory Updated 2025-07-16

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History of the Josephson effect Updated 2025-07-16

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In 1962 Brian Josephson published his inaugural paper predicting the effect as Section "Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling".

In 1963 Philip W. Anderson and John M. Rowell published their paper that first observed the effect as Section "Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling".

Some golden notes can be found at True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen page 224 and around. Philip W. Anderson commented:

We were all - Josephson, Pippard and myself, as well as various other people who also habitually sat at the Mond tea and participated in the discussions of the next few weeks - very much puzzled by the meaning of the fact that the current depends on the phase

As part of the course Anderson had introduced the concept of broken symmetry in superconductors. Josephson "was fascinated by the idea of broken symmetry, and wondered whether there could be any way of observing it experimentally."

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Philip W. Anderson Updated 2025-07-16

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How to teach / Projects must aim for novelty Updated 2025-07-16

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The projects you do must always aim to achieving some novel result.

You don't have to necessarily reach it. But you must aim for it.

Novel result can be taken broadly.

E.g., a new tutorial that explains something in a way never done before is novel.

But there must be something to your project that has never been done before.

You can start by reproducing other's work.

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History of condensed matter physics Updated 2025-07-16

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Bibliography:

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Handscroll Updated 2025-07-16

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Ciro Santilli's favorite. A mixture of painting and book.

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Champaign-Urbana metropolitan area Updated 2025-07-16

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It is quite comical that two separate towns were founded one next to the other right in the middle of nowhere. And that both have so slightly weird names.

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Bilibili Updated 2025-07-16

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B4 Oxford physics course Updated 2025-07-16

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www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml As of 2023, contains some good 2015 materials: web.archive.org/web/20220525094139/http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml It was called "Subatomic physics" back then.

2015 professor: Alan J. Barr.

Possible 2022 professor: Guy Wilkinson (unconfirmed): www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-guy-wilkinson

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B2 Oxford physics course Updated 2025-07-16

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www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/AndreiStarinets/sr_mt_2022.html (archive) contains 2022 problem sets and notes, well done Mr Andrei Starinets!