Georg Bednorz

Johannes Georg Bednorz
Bednorz in 2013
Born	(1950-05-16) 16 May 1950 (age 73) Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	High-temperature superconductivity
Awards	Marcel Benoist Prize (1986) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1987) Nobel Prize in Physics (1987) EPS Europhysics Prize (1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Thesis	Isovalent and heterovalent ionic substitution in SrTiO3 (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Heini Gränicher, K. Alex Müller

Johannes Georg Bednorz (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈbɛdnɔʁt͡s] ^ⓘ; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.