Cold (and hot) wars: superconductivity and society, from Weissberg-Cibulsky 1931 to the 2003 Nobel prize

摘要

Far from being a continous flow from its discovery down to its explanation, the actual history of superconductivity has been affected by numerous socio-political turbulences all along the XXth century, through hot and Cold wars. From the 30′s to the 2003 Nobel prize for physics most of these turbulences are overviewed.