Centennial Book Project
Title of the Book
- 100 Years of Superconductivity
Book Editors
- Prof. Dr. Horst Rogalla, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Prof. Dr. Peter Kes, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
Background
- Superconductivity was found at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, by Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911.
Since then superconductivity has developed in to a modern science and technology that led to a number of Nobel prices and
has applications that would be impossible without superconductors, e.g. the accelerators and detectors at CERN, the nuclear
fusion experiment ITER and medical applications such as MRI or MEG.
- An international group of excellent scientists in the field of Applied Superconductivity, of Theoretical and Experimental Superconductivity
and of the Material Science of Superconductivity has come together to write a book about the history and perspectives of Superconductivity,
that intends to give a personal and scientific account of the historic developments and a preview what to expect from superconductivity in
the years to come.
Aim
- Aim of this book is to give an impression to the non-specialized reader on how major research results in superconductivity were achieved,
what the current status of superconductivity research is and what we can expect in the future - a personal tint of the authors should take
this book out of the sphere of dry scientific monographs. Instead it should give a (global) overview over the field without being too
specialized: so that also physics students and teachers should be capable of reading and enjoying it. It may thus also contain personal
stories linked to achievements in the field.
- This book is not intended to be a monograph or handbook of superconductivity.
Publisher
- Chapman & Hall // CRC of the Taylor&Francis Group.