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uperconductor
experiment
recreated at RCHS
By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
In 1987, Alex Muller and Georg Bednorz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work with superconductivity.
And in 1988, teacher Brion Patterson and a cadre of Rappahannock County High School physics students made their own superconductor.
It’s an achievement equaled by few big schools serving affluent urban and suburban communities with state-of-theart science labs. Little rural schools like Rappahannock (which got water and gas in its science labs only with the capital outlay project now underway) rarely even try projects of such scope.
Superconductivity, discovered in 1911 by Dutch Scientist Kamerlingh Onnes, is the ability to conduct an electric current with no energy loss, thus allowing the same current to circulate forever. By comparison, Mr. Patterson noted, power companies lose 20 to 30 percent of their energy during conduction, depending
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