The Physics of Cold in the Cold War—“On-Line Computing” Between the ICBM Program and Superconductivity
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Superconductivity—the loss of resistance in various materials close to absolute zero temperature—was a hot topic after World War II. Advances in nuclear reactor technology led to the discovery of the isotope effect in 1950 (Maxwell 1950; Reynolds et al. 1950), which brought about crucial insights about the role of electron-lattice interactions in superconductors that ultimately led to the formulation of a microscopic theory of this phenomenon. Generations of physicists had been struggling to find an explanation of superconductivity ever since its discovery in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
Number of pages | 14 |
Publisher | Springer |
Publication date | 2014 |
Pages | 119-132 |
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Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Series | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
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Volume | 299 |
ISSN | 0068-0346 |
- Absolute Zero Temperature, Eliashberg Equation, Hughes Aircraft, Nonlinear Integral Equation, Quantitative Theory
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