German-born physicist J. Georg Bednorz, now a Swiss resident, has a particular genius for finding solutions to problems of equipment and technique in physics research. He is the discoverer, with Swiss physicist K. Alex Müller, of ceramic...
In 1911, the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes discovered the phenomenon of superconductivity, the total loss of electrical resistance by a material. Potentially, the discovery had enormous practical significance. All electrical devices operate...
Johannes Georg Bednorz (May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in high-temperature superconductivity. He was born in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Anton and Elisabeth Bednorz. In 1968,...
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
In early July 1759, three friends met at an inn called the Windmill outside the German city of Konigsberg, for what might be called an "evangelistic" or "counseling" session. Intellectuals all, the three friends had earlier been cobelligerents in the cause of rationalism...
George Saintsbury's criticism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is an early version of the New Criticism that would dominate literary criticism in the first half of the 1900s. Saintsbury, writing at the turn of the 20th century, chided Goethe for being too pedagogical. The...
