The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor

by Robert M. Hazen

Book Overview

How three scientists unlocked the secrets of superconductivity and made a discover that will change the way we live. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345361458
• ISBN13: 9780345361455
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very exciting competition race to high Tc superconductors.

This book describes very nice the first two months of 1987 where all labs around the world are investigating the crystal structure of the new discovered YBaCuO superconductor.