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Brian D. Josephson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Leo Esaki (see Chap. 6) “for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.”
The case of the student against the Nobel laureate.
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Anderson acknowledges this story, see the Anderson chapter (Chap. 8) of this book.
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Fossheim, K. (2013). Brian D. Josephson: Cooper Pair Tunnelling: The Josephson Effects. In: Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36059-6_7
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