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Brian David Josephson
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Josephson, Brian David 

Born Jan. 4, 1940, in Wales. British physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1970).

Josephson graduated from Cambridge University in 1960 and received a Ph.D. from the university in 1964. He joined the university’s staff in 1967 and became a professor in 1974. Josephson’s principal works deal with theoretical physics. In 1962 he predicted the existence of a tunnel effect in superconductors separated by a thin dielectric layer (the Josephson effect).

Josephson received a Nobel Prize in 1973.
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1 The Josephson Effect In 1962, Brian Josephson, a graduate student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, predicted [32] that electrons can tunnel in pairs (Cooper pairs) between two superconductors separated by a thin insulating barrier (a weak link or Josephson junction).
The ampere and electrical standards by Williams, Edwin R. / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
 
 
 
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