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Nature 401, 333-335 (23 September 1999) | doi:10.1038/43801

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High-temperature superconductivity: Electrons pair themselves

Joe Orenstein

Soon the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide materials will belong to a previous millennium. In the early days an explanation of this phenomenon was expected well before the next epoch, but the 1990s saw the mystery settle like an indigestible dinner at a roadside restaurant.