Matthias, Bernd

Armin Berndt, Matthias Hofmann, Walter Siebert and Bernd Wrackmeyer... 

I m not wasting any more time on these damn superconductors, Roy told Bernd Matthias, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, the discoverer of a number of superconducting materials and the man who had steered Roy toward the barium mixture in the first place. Matthias was persistent. Don t give up, Rusty, he said. This is a completely new type of superconductivity. ... 

Soon after, Bernd Matthias, then with Bell Laboratories, concocted something called niobium-3 tin, which handled superconductivity at 18° K, a milestone of sorts but still enormously cold when one considers the temperature is equal to -427° F. It s difficult not to compare these early efforts—indeed, the current-day ones as well—to those of medieval alchemists searching for the lapis philosopho-rum, the philosopher s stone, that ill-defined soluble substance endowed with the power to change base metals into gold and silver, a stone capable of purging a metal of its impurities so that it could be turned into some precious substance, or one with some useful purpose. It was all a matter of try it and hope. 

Page 34. Bernd Matthias "High Temperature Superconductivity In Comments on Solid State Physics 3, (no. 4, Oct/Nov 1970) 95. 

Matthias Westerhausen, Bernd Rademacher, Manfred Hartmann, Michael Wieneke, Matthias Digeser... 

Daniel Hoffmann, Bernd Kramer, Takumi Washio, Torsten Steinmetzer, Matthias Rarey, and Thomas Lengauer. Two-stage method for protein-ligand docking. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 42 4422-4433, 1999. 

By MATTHIAS P. MAYER, DIRK BREHMER, CLAUDIA S. GASSLER, and BERND BUKAU... 

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