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Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive a century after a Nobel went to the scientist who demonstrated it below -450 degrees Fahrenheit

  • Written by David D. Nolte, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive a century after a Nobel went to the scientist who demonstrated it below -450 degrees FahrenheitPhotograph of the first Solvay Conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropole. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is standing third from the right.Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia Commons

On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.”

The note referred to...

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