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Brian Josephson

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Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor of physics at Cambridge University. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22 year-old Ph.D. student at Cambridge. Josephson has spent his academic career as a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter group at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. He has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1962, and served as Professor of Physics from 1974 until 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Josephson is the 51st most popular physicist (up from 253rd in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 693rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Physicist.

Brian Josephson is most famous for his discovery of the Josephson effect.

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Among physicists, Brian Josephson ranks 51 out of 851. Before him are Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. After him are Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, and Sheldon Lee Glashow.

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Among people born in 1940, Brian Josephson ranks 12. Before him are Tom Jones, Saparmurat Niyazov, Wangari Maathai, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Anthony Fauci, and Chuck Norris. After him are Zodiac Killer, Constantine II of Greece, Annie Ernaux, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Qaboos bin Said al Said, and Ringo Starr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 143 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Shelley (1797), William Harvey (1578), Catherine Parr (1512), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), Henry Morgan (1635), and Rosalind Franklin (1920). After him are Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Nicholas Winton (1909), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), William Ramsay (1852), J. M. W. Turner (1775), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 16. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and David J. Thouless (1934). After him are Patrick Blackett (1897), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), and William Henry Bragg (1862).

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