@inbook{ae226c13c22940eda2cc6bed859263a5,
title = "The Physics of Cold in the Cold War—“On-Line Computing” Between the ICBM Program and Superconductivity",
abstract = "Superconductivity—the loss of resistance in various materials close to absolute zero temperature—was a hot topic after World War II. Advances in nuclear reactor technology led to the discovery of the isotope effect in 1950 (Maxwell 1950; Reynolds et al. 1950), which brought about crucial insights about the role of electron-lattice interactions in superconductors that ultimately led to the formulation of a microscopic theory of this phenomenon. Generations of physicists had been struggling to find an explanation of superconductivity ever since its discovery in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.",
keywords = "Absolute Zero Temperature, Eliashberg Equation, Hughes Aircraft, Nonlinear Integral Equation, Quantitative Theory",
author = "Johannes Knolle and Christian Joas",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-7199-4_7",
language = "English",
series = "Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "119--132",
booktitle = "Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science",
}