Superconductivity: There's Plenty of Cream at the Bottom
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Hirschfeld, Peter J.
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Abstract
In 1961, Brian Pippard gave a speech at IBM called "The Cat and the Cream", in which he declared that
the superconductivity field was finished, at least for "young innocents who wish to break new ground":
the cream was gone, and the bowl was empty. I show why the subsequent 6 decades proved him so dramatically
wrong, how new materials and experimental techniques have continuously driven new theoretical
understandings, such that the field has been constantly renewed, and is in fact a very good place for
young researchers to make a career.
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2020-10-19
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70:20 minutes
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Moving Image
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Lecture