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Brian David Josephson is a British physicist and university teacher born in Cardiff in 1940. He is a member of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable work includes the Josephson effect. He has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Elliott Cresson Medal, the Holweck Prize, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society.
Josephson was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, under doctoral advisor Brian Pippard. He has worked at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and Missouri University of Science and Technology. He resides in the United Kingdom and speaks English. His name in his native language is Brian David Josephson.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1973
“for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects”
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- Josephson
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- male
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- United Kingdom
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- Cardiff
- Occupation
- university teacher
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- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Josephson effect
- Doctoral advisor
- Brian Pippard
- Field of work
- physics
- Official website
- www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10
- Image
- Brian Josephson, March 2004.jpg
- Residence
- United Kingdom
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- 1940-01-04
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Encyclopedic overview
Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a British theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a Ph.D. student at Cambridge.
Josephson has spent his academic career as a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group in Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. He has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 1962, and served as Professor of Physics from 1974 until 2007.
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