Word: chu
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...scientists, working at the IBM labs near Zurich, discovered a new ceramic that raised the temperature to 35 K. Since then, other researchers have used similar materials to achieve superconductivity at even higher temperatures. Indeed, Paul C.W. Chu of the University of Houston and colleagues reached 98 K, or -283 degrees F, an achievement some physicists think should have earned Chu a share of the prize. That level of cooling can be achieved with more readily available liquid nitrogen. Suddenly, a wide range of applications seems economically feasible: trains that ride on a cushion of magnetism; smaller, faster supercomputers; more...
Simon and Schuster bought the book to include in the opening of their new Pocket Books hardcover line for "double the price" that any other unpublished author had ever received from any publishing firm, says Thernstorm's literary agent Lynn Chu...
...ceramic compound that became a superconductor at a temperature well above the previously achieved record of 23.2 Kelvin, or -418 degrees F. By year's end researchers were developing materials that became superconductors at higher and higher temperatures. At the University of Houston, a team led by Paul C.W. Chu set the currently recognized standard last February, when it produced superconductivity at a balmy 98 K (-283 degrees...
Though leaders of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party condemned that timetable as "too slow," they grudgingly hailed Chiang's move. Said Chu Kao-cheng, a Progressive Party lawmaker in the Legislative Yuan: "I can't deny that basic human rights will be better off than before." Last week 23 prisoners and political dissidents were released. Still, the Progressive Party, which claims to speak for the native Taiwanese, is not about to slow its push for greater Taiwanese participation in government. Chiang, however, is unlikely to accept demands that undercut the near monopoly on political power held by his ruling party...
...published. Progress is so rapid that a result of two to three weeks ago is already out of date. We've had to institute a whole new system to speed up the publication process." One important discovery: at least a dozen different compounds, all subtly different from the one Chu found, appear to act as high-temperature superconductors...