Johannes Georg Bednorz (May 16th 1950) is a German physicist prize winner of the Nobel Prize of physics in 1987.

It is born with Neuenkirchen in 1968. It starts to study the Minéralogie with the Université of Münster.

In 1982, it is engaged by IBM to work in their laboratory of Zurich, it joined there Karl Alexander Müller which carries out research on the Supraconducteur S. In 1983 they begin a systematic study of the electric properties of Céramique S formed starting from Oxyde of metals of transitions. Certain recent studies had indicated that these materials could be superconductive. In 1986 they obtain supraconductivity in an oxide of Baryum - Lanthane - Cuivre at the temperature of 35 K. In the 75 previous years the known minimal critical temperature had passed from 11 K in 1911 to 23 K in 1973 not to be modified more to the opening of Müller and Bednorz. In less than one year, other teams, basing themselves on work of Müller, increases the record to 93 K. In 1987 Bednorz and Müller receives the Nobel Prize of physics “for the opening carried out by discovering the ceramics supraconductivity”. It is the amount of time in short between a discovery and its reward by a Nobel since the creation of this price.

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