08:00 12.06.2009
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules
Jorge Hirsch had been getting screwed . For years. At a scientific conference in 1989, he presented a paper arguing that the generally accepted theory of low-temperature superconductors—the BCS theory—was wrong. Most researchers at the time held that under certain low-temperature conditions, vibrations in a metal's crystal lattice can allow electrons to become attracted to one another, which drops... read more