Georg Bednorz is a German physicist best known for his pioneering work in the field of high-temperature superconductivity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987, alongside Alexei Abrikosov and Robert Schrieffer, for their research on superconductors. Bednorz and his collaborator, K. Alex Müller, discovered a new class of superconductors based on ceramic materials, which exhibited superconductivity at temperatures significantly higher than those of previously known superconductors.

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Georg Bednorz by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-31
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A solid-state physicist who researched metallic oxides at IBM's Zurich laboratory.[ref]
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