Absolutely No Resistance
Fri Jul 8 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A
Presented by Professor David Jamieson
The strange discovery of superconductivity Since the discovery in 1911 that frozen mercury would conduct electricity with absolutely no resistance when cooled to very low temperature, humanity has struggled to explain the phenomenon. It took nearly 50 years to explain the 1911 discovery but this explanation was challenged by new high temperature superconductors discovered in 1986. This lecture looks at the past and promise of this remarkable phenomenon.