John Bardeen and the BCS Theory of superconductivity

摘要

Every theory of superconductivity can be disproved! This tongue-in-cheek theorem struck a chord when Felix Bloch an- nounced it in the early 1930s. virtually every major physicist then working on theory-including Bloch, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner heisenberg, Lev Landau, Leon Brillouin, W. Elsasser, Yakov Frenkel, and Ralph Kronig-had Tried an failed to explain the mysterious Phenomenon in which below a few de- Grees kelvin certain metals and alloys Loseall their electrical resistance.