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Nature Physics 3, 837 - 838 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys803

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics

Superconductivity: A celebration of pairs

Michael R. Norman1

  1. Michael R. Norman is in the Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
    e-mail: norman@anl.gov


It is fifty years since John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Bob Schrieffer presented the microscopic theory of superconductivity. At a wonderful conference in Urbana the 'good old days' were remembered, and the challenges ahead surveyed.

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