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Welsh physicist

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Brian David Josephson is a British physicist and university teacher born in Cardiff in 1940. He works in the field of physics and is known for the Josephson effect. Josephson has served as an employee of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign and Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and his doctoral advisor was Brian Pippard.

He is a member of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His awards include the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Elliott Cresson Medal, and the Holweck Prize. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society. Josephson resides in the United Kingdom and speaks English. He has been described by the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia and is recognized in various collections, including those of the Royal Society and Nobel Laureates.

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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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human
Given name
David
Family name
Josephson
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Cardiff
Languages spoken
English language
Notable work
Josephson effect
Doctoral advisor
Brian Pippard
Field of work
physics
Image
Brian Josephson, March 2004.jpg
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date of birth
1940-01-04
Erdős number
7
Commons category
Brian Josephson
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
name in native language
Brian David Josephson
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
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Nobel disease
interested in
physics
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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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