Tag: philosophy
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Superconductivity: The High-Tc Puzzle
We have come to the last chapter on our superconductivity journey (for now). After finally understanding how superconductivity works, there was only one thing left to do: find materials with higher transition temperatures. In 1986, researchers did just that, but the superconductivity was not the same as before. The mechanism behind this new superconductivity is…
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Women of Quantum: Grete Hermann
Grete Hermann was a pioneer thinker. She had the philosophical mind to ask the right questions and the mathematical mind to answer them. Her insight could have shaped the history of quantum mechanics if it had not been hidden away for so long.
The Spin of Things 