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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987

"for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials"
J. Georg Bednorz K. Alexander Müller
J. Georg Bednorz K. Alexander Müller
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Federal Republic of Germany Switzerland
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Rüschlikon, Switzerland		 IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Rüschlikon, Switzerland
b. 1950 b. 1927
 
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