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""The Cold Wars"" tells the history of superconductivity, providing perspective on the development of the field and its relationship with the rest of physics and the history of our time. The authors provide a rare look at the scientists and their research, mostly little known beyond a small coterie of specialists. Superconductivity provides an excellent example of the evolutionh of physics in the 20th century: the science itself, its epistemological foundations, and its social context.

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Jean Matricon taught physics at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris VII), where he conducted theoretical research on superconductivity and other topics in condensed matter physics. Georges Waysand has focused his experimental research on superconductivity, most recently at Universite Denis Diderot (Paris VII), and at a spin-off underground physics laboratory he has begun in Rustrel, France. Charles Glashausser is a professor of physics at Rutgers University and chair of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society.

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