Milestone-Proposal talk:Discovery of Superconductivity at 93 K in Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide
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Initial Review 20 May '17 -- k3hz (talk) 08:58, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
After a detailed review of the proposal, the following checks and notes were conduced:
1. The proposal is factual based on the existing (extensive) correspondence regarding the closely associated Milestone at the University of Houston. The claims of both do not conflict, and I have no objection to the wording. I would suggest removing the word "also", as it adds nothing to any sentence written in English;
2. The documentation attachments support the proposal, and no conflicts with these and basic Google searches showed no conflicting information.
Subject to comment by others, I have found no objection based on the IEEE History Committee Milestone guidelines, and recommend this milestone be elevated for review at the next History committee Milestone Review meeting.
- Declaration. I do need to disclose that:
- I separately met with Dr Ruling Meng and Dr Chu at the University of Houston, accompanied by their legal team regarding push back by members of the public on the IEEE Milestone at their Campus in 2014. There was open litigation at that time. - I attended the UAH building with Dr Ashburn to examine the existing plaques and re-purposed laboratory. neither of these I believe has influenced my review and recommndations here.
Regards, David E Burger, Chartered Professional Engineer, Electrical and Electronics Past Chair of the IEEE History Committee 2014/2015 Mount Colah, Sydney, Australia.
Minor Edit to Citation Wording -- Jrashburn (talk) 13:22, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Concur with the advocate that the word "also" should be removed from the citation wording. The edit has been made on the proposal page.
Update: The support letter from the IEEE Huntsville Section has been submitted and received.
Jim Ashburn, Milestone Proposer
-- JaninA (talk) 09:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
I agree with David that there does not seem to be a contradiction between 2014 Milestone High Temperature Superconductivity, 1987. As a researcher involved in research on microwave properties of HTS materials for 30 years I am of the opinion that the proposed milestone compliments the 2014 Milestone very well .
One small remark. When Bednorz and Muller made their discovery of superconductivity in LaBaCuO, they announced Tc as 30K. However later higher Tc were measured too, up to 40K, thanks to optimized optimized stoichiometry. Some texts and review publications quote 40K. It may be worthy to mention.
