Brian david josephson biography of william hill

Welsh physicist (born 1940)

Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh physicist and was professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge.^[3] Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for his discovery of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22 year-old PhD student at Cambridge.^[4][5]

Josephson has spent his academic career as a member of the Theory of Condensed Matter group at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.

He has been a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1962, and served as professor of physics from 1974 until 2007.^[4]

In the early 1970s, Josephson took up transcendental meditation and turned his attention to issues outside the boundaries of mainstream science.

He set up the Mind–Matter Unification Project at Cavendish to explore the idea of intelligence in natu