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For a few weeks in February, 1987, hundreds of previously staid scientists behaved like espionage agents from a B-movie. Late-night phone calls and furtive meetings centered around “the secret formula”; everybody wanted it and only a few people had it. All the cloak-and-dagger activity surrounded the biggest single event in the superconductivity world since Kamerlingh Onnes first dipped mercury wires into liquid helium. Superconductivity had broken the liquid nitrogen temperature barrier.
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© 1988 Randy Simon and Andrew Smith
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Simon, R., Smith, A. (1988). The Breakthrough. In: Superconductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6050-4_13
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