Richard Feynman and the History of Superconductivity

Physics in Perspective

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 30-47

  Goodstein, David ^a   Goodstein, Judith ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feynman; History of superconductivity; Kamerlingh onnes; Liquefaction of gases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346041673     PISSN: 14226944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000160050035     Document Type: Article

References (43)

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2. L. Pearce Williams, Michael Faraday (New York: Basic Books, 1965).
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9. Per F. Dahl, "Kamerlingh Onnes and the Discovery of Superconductivity: The Leyden Years, 1911-1914," Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, 15 (1984), 1-37. See also Dahl, Superconductivity: Its Historical Roots and Development from Mercury to the Ceramic Oxides (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1992).
10. Dahl, "Kamerlingh Onnes" (ref. 6), pp. 4-10.
11. Ibid., pp. 12-13.
12. Ibid., pp. 14-16. Hendrik Casimir, Haphazard Reality, Half a Century of Science (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), Chapter 6. Lillian Hoddeson and others, "Collective Phenomena," in Hoddeson and others, eds., Out of the Crystal Maze, Chapters from the History of Solid-State Physics (New York: Oxford University Press: 1992), pp. 489-616, esp. 492-495.
13. Ibid., pp. 14-16. Hendrik Casimir, Haphazard Reality, Half a Century of Science (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), Chapter 6. Lillian Hoddeson and others, "Collective Phenomena," in Hoddeson and others, eds., Out of the Crystal Maze, Chapters from the History of Solid-State Physics (New York: Oxford University Press: 1992), pp. 489-616, esp. 492-495.
14. Ibid., pp. 14-16. Hendrik Casimir, Haphazard Reality, Half a Century of Science (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), Chapter 6. Lillian Hoddeson and others, "Collective Phenomena," in Hoddeson and others, eds., Out of the Crystal Maze, Chapters from the History of Solid-State Physics (New York: Oxford University Press: 1992), pp. 489-616, esp. 492-495.
15. Ibid., pp. 17-32.
16. Ibid., p. 33.
17. Dahl, "Superconductivity after World War I and circumstances surrounding the discovery of a state B = 0," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 16 (1986), pp. 1-58.
18. Ibid., pp. 45-52.
19. Lillian Hoddeson, Gordon Baym, and Michael Eckert, "The Development of the Quantum Mechanical Electron Theory of Metals, 1926-1933," (ref. 9), pp. 88-181, esp. pp. 140-153.
20. David Goodstein, States of Matter (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1975).
21. Kostas Gavroglu, Fritz London: A Scientific Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
22. Hoddeson and others, (ref. 9), pp. 541-546.
23. Ibid., pp. 546-547.
24. Ibid., pp. 549-550.
25. Ibid., pp. 551-554, quotation on p. 554.
26. Ibid., pp. 555-557.
27. Interview of Richard P. Feynman, by Charles Weiner, June 28, 1966, p. 168, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD.
28. Richard P. Feynman, "Superfluidity and Superconductivity," Reviews of Modern Physics 29 (1957), 205-212, on p. 205.
29. Ibid., p, 205.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., p. 208.
32. Ibid., p. 210.
33. Ibid., p. 209, 211.
34. Ibid., p. 211.
35. Ibid., p. 212.
36. John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, and J. Robert Schrieffer, "Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity," Physical Review 106 (1957), 162-164.
37. R. Feynman, "The Schrödinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity," vol. 3 of Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1963-1965), Chapter 21.
38. R. P. Feynman, "Theory and Applications of Mercereau's Superconducting Circuits," transcript, October 29, 1964, Richard P. Feynman Papers, California Institute of Technology Archives, Box 6.14, pp. 1-43, on p. 1.
39. Ibid., p. 14-16.
40. Ibid., p. 16-17,
41. Ibid., p. 26-27.
42. Ibid., p. 29-30.
43. John Wei, private communication