Brian Josephson

Born

1940-01-04

Birthplace

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Biography

Brian David Josephson FRS is a British theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunneling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University.