Theoretical Remarks on Superconductivity

[ZapperZ]

This is a 1922 on the Theoretical Remarks on Superconductivity. The amazing insight eventually led to the BCS theory in 1957. You wouldn't BELIEVE who the author is! I'm not going to tell you who it is. You will have to click the link to find out!

And people think he did only one thing...

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510251

Zz.

 

[Physics Monkey]

The man knew everything, just like Newton.

 

[Pieter Kuiper]

He was just speculating.

In 1922, they did not even have the concept of electrons as a degenerate Fermi gas. That idea was first worked out by Sommerfeld in 1928.

 

[ZapperZ]

PhysicsWeb has picked up on this paper.

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/11/4/1

Looks like the story of how this paper came about is almost as interesting as the paper itself.

Zz.