Brian Josephson: merging physics and the paranormal

A newspaper photograph taken in 1973, showing a jubilant Brian Josephson after learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Credit: PA Images via Getty Images

In 1962, Brian Josephson, a 22-year-old graduate student at England’s Cambridge University, born on January 4, 1940, in Cardiff, Wales, predicted that electrical current would flow, or tunnel, between two superconducting materials – things that at low temperatures lack electrical resistance, even when they are separated by a non-superconductor, or insulator.

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