The 1987 Fritz London Memorial Prize Winners K. Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz (IBM Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland) http://www.nndb.com/people/989/000099692/ http://www.nndb.com/people/986/000099689/ K. Alex Müller Georg Bednorz Citation: “For their pioneering work in the field of high Tc oxide superconductors. Their discovery of superconductivity in the barium lanthanum copper oxides has sparked a worldwide research effort which is making superconductivity a commercially important technology.”