Conferences to celebrate physics milestone
By Greg Kline
Monday October 8, 2007
University of Illinois Professor Paul Goldbart is unequivocal when he talks about the theory of superconductivity, advanced 50 years ago by John Bardeen, the UI's two-time Nobel Prize winner, and UI colleagues Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer.
Not just a milestone in condensed-matter physics or physics in general, something most physicists would agree upon, but "one of the high-water marks of human thought" is how Goldbart characterized the so-called BCS Theory recently.
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