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Brian Josephson | |
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 Josephson in 2004 | |
| Born | Brian David Josephson 4 January 1940 Cardiff, Wales |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Josephson effect |
| Spouse |
Carol Anne Olivier (m. 1976) |
| Children | 1[1][2] |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Non-linear conduction in superconductors (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Brian Pippard |
| Website | www |
Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh physicist and is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge.[3] 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.[4][5]
Josephson has spent his academic career as a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter group at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. He has been a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1962, and served as professor of physics from 1974 until 2007.[4]
In the early 1970s, Josephson took up transcendental meditation and turned his attention to issues outside the boundaries of mainstream science. He set up the Mind–Matter Unification Project at Cavendish to explore the idea of intelligence in nature, the relationship between quantum mechanics and consciousness, and the synthesis of science and Eastern mysticism, broadly known as quantum mysticism.[6] He has expressed support for topics such as parapsychology, water memory and cold fusion, which has made him a focus of criticism from fellow scientists.[4][5]
- ^ a b "JOSEPHSON, Prof. Brian David". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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- ^ a b c "Brian D. Josephson", Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ a b Glorfeld, Jeff (18 March 2019). "Science history: The man attempting to merge physics and the paranormal". cosmosmagazine.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "Mind–Matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)", University of Cambridge.
Brian Josephson, "Foreword," in Michael A. Thalbourne and Lance Storm (eds.), Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the Future of Psychical research, McFarland, 2005, pp. 1–2.
Brian Josephson, "We Think That We Think Clearly, But That's Only Because We Don't Think Clearly," in Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit (eds.), Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003, pp. 107–115.
Jessica Utts and Brian Josephson, "Do you believe in psychic phenomena? Are they likely to be able to explain consciousness?", Times Higher Education, 8 April 1996.