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Brian Josephson

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Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh physicist and was professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22 year-old PhD student at Cambridge. Josephson has spent his academic career as a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter group at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Josephson has received more than 345,488 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Brian Josephson is the 252nd most popular physicist (up from 272nd in 2019), the 693rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 906th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physicist.

Brian Josephson is most famous for his discovery of the Josephson effect.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Brian Josephson ranks 252 out of 851. Before him are Jim Peebles, Gérard Mourou, Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, Ivar Giaever, and Claude-Louis Navier. After him are Charles Wheatstone, Masatoshi Koshiba, Philip Warren Anderson, David Brewster, Otto Robert Frisch, and Rainer Weiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Brian Josephson ranks 73. Before him are Jacques Rancière, Fatema Mernissi, Dennis Tito, John Gotti, Bruce Chatwin, and Raul Julia. After him are Roberto Cavalli, Al Jarreau, Lance Henriksen, Gudrun Ensslin, Milena Dravić, and Ira von Fürstenberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 693 out of 8,785. Before him are Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), Jim Broadbent (1949), Peter Shilton (1949), William Oughtred (1574), Stephen Gray (1666), and John Frederic Daniell (1790). After him are Harry Kroto (1939), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Wheatstone (1802), James May (1963), George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592), and Peter Greenaway (1942).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Brian Josephson ranks 27. Before him are William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), David J. Thouless (1934), William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), and Patrick Blackett (1897). After him are Charles Wheatstone (1802), David Brewster (1781), John Cockcroft (1897), Daniel Rutherford (1749), Andrew Huxley (1917), and Osborne Reynolds (1842).

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