ZURICH - 18 Apr 2011: Twenty-five years ago IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists, J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller altered the landscape of physics when they observed superconductivity in an oxide material at a temperature 50 percent higher(1), (-238 deg C, -397 deg F) than what was previously known. This discovery opened an entirely new chapter in the field of physics and earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987.
As a reference: superconductivity happens at "absolute zero," (we can experimentally get "close"), or:
0◦K, -273.15◦C, or -459◦F.
IBM Press Release: IBM Honors the 25th Anniversary of High-Temperature Superconductivity
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