Brian Josephson

Brian David Josephson FRS (lahir 4 Januari 1940) ialah ahli fizik teori Welsh dan profesor emeritus fizik di University of Cambridge.^[1] Paling terkenal kerana kerja perintisnya pada superkonduktiviti dan terowong kuantum, beliau telah dianugerahkan Hadiah Nobel dalam Fizik pada tahun 1973 bagi ramalannya tentang kesan Josephson, yang dibuat pada tahun 1962 ketika dia seorang pelajar PhD berusia 22 tahun di Universiti Cambridge. Josephson ialah satu-satunya rakyat Welsh yang telah memenangi Hadiah Nobel dalam Fizik. Beliau berkongsi hadiah dengan ahli fizik Leo Esaki dan Ivar Giaever, yang bersama-sama menerima setengah anugerah untuk kerja mereka sendiri mengenai terowong kuantum.^[2]

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Bacaan lanjut

• Brian Josephson's home page, University of Cambridge.
• Brian Josephson, academia.edu.
• "bdj50: Conference in Cambridge to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Brian Josephson’s Seminal Work", Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.
• Anderson, Philip. "How Josephson Discovered His Effect", Physics Today, November 1970. Anderson's account of Josephson's discovery; he taught the graduate course in solid-state/many-body theory in which Josephson was a student.
• Barone, A. and Paterno, G. Physics and Applications of the Josephson Effect, Wiley, 1982.
• Bertlmann, R. A. and Zeilinger, A. (eds.), Quantum (Un)speakables: From Bell to Quantum Information, Springer, 2002.
• Buckel, Werner and Kleiner, Reinhold. Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications, VCH, 1991.
• Jibu, Mari and Yasue, Kunio. Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An Introduction, John Benjamins Publishing, 1995.
• Josephson, Brian. "Quantum Mechanics, thermodynamics and transcendental meditation", courtesy of YouTube, 12 January 1975.
• Josephson, Brian; Rubik, Beverly A.; Fontana, David; Lorimer, David. "Defining consciousness", Nature, 358(618), 20 August 1992.
• Rosen, Joe. "Josephson, Brian David," Encyclopedia of Physics, Infobase Publishing, 2009, pp. 165–166.
• Stapp, Henry. "Quantum Approaches to Consciousness," in Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch and Evan Thompson (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, 2007.
• Stenger, Victor J. The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology, Prometheus Books, 1995.