Superconductivity: The Next Revolution?

by Gianfranco Vidali

Book Overview

In this book Professor Vidali describes in plain, nontechnical terms how conventional superconductivity was discovered 80 years ago, why it took nearly fifty years to understand it, and the physical explanation of why it exists. He chronicles the developments that led up to the discovery of high temperature superconducting materials, and describes the excitement generated by announcements of the new discoveries in 1987 at a scientific conference that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521377579
• ISBN13: 9780521377577
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"