Superconductivity:  a selective bibliography

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Title:	Superconductivity: a selective bibliography
Author(s):	Michael Fosmire, (Michael Fosmire (fosmire@purdue/edu) is Physics and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Librarian, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.)
Citation:	Michael Fosmire, (2000) "Superconductivity: a selective bibliography", Reference Services Review, Vol. 28 Iss: 2, pp.161 - 170
Keywords:	Bibliographies, Scientific research, Superconductors, Technology
Article type:	Literature review
DOI:	10.1108/00907320010303552 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Abstract:	The phenomenon of superconductivity has been studied for 90 years, with the latest surge in popularity occurring in the late 1980s, when high-temperature superconductors were first created. In this time much progress has been made to create commercially viable applications of the technology and understand the theory behind the phenomenon. Furthermore, at a time when national science policy was undergoing close scrutiny, the high-temperature superconductor boom served as a high-profile case study of the role of government in spurring the acceptance of new technologies. This bibliography provides resources that chronicle the technological and scientific developments in the field since its discovery and the policy decisions and issues that governments and society made when faced with a possible scientific revolution.