History of Superconductivity - Historical Publications

Historical Publications

Papers by H.K. Onnes

• "The resistance of pure mercury at helium temperatures". Comm. Leiden. April 28, 1911.
• "The disappearance of the resistivity of mercury". Comm. Leiden. May 27, 1911.
• "On the sudden change in the rate at which the resistance of mercury disappears". Comm. Leiden. November 25, 1911.
• "The imitation of an ampere molecular current or a permanent magnet by means of a supraconductor". Comm. Leiden. 1914.

BCS theory

• J. Bardeen, L.N. Cooper and J.R. Schrieffer, "Theory of superconductivity," Phys. Rev. 108, 1175 (1957), doi:10.1103/PhysRev.108.1175

Other key papers

• W. Meissner and R. Ochsenfeld, Naturwiss. 21, 787 (1933), doi:10.1007/BF01504252
• F. London and H. London, "The electromagnetic equations of the supraconductor," Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) A149, 71 (1935), ISSN 0080-4630.
• V.L. Ginzburg and L.D. Landau, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 20, 1064 (1950)
• E. Maxwell, "Isotope effect in the superconductivity of mercury" Phys. Rev. 78, 477 (1950), doi:10.1103/PhysRev.78.477
• C.A. Reynolds et al., "Superconductivity of isotopes of mercury," Phys. Rev. 78, 487 (1950), doi:10.1103/PhysRev.78.487
• A.A. Abrikosov, "On the magnetic properties of superconductors of the second group," Soviet Physics JETP 5, 1174 (1957)
• W.A. Little and R. D. Parks, "Observation of quantum periodicity in the transition temperature of a superconducting cylinder," Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 9 (1962) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.9.9
• B.D. Josephson, "Possible new effects in superconductive tunnelling," Physics Letters 1, 251 (1962), doi:10.1016/0031-9163(62)91369-0

Patents

• Tesla, Nikola, U.S. Patent 685,012 "Means for Increasing the Intensity of Electrical Oscillations", March 21, 1900.