UT Knoxville Professors Win Award for Creating Superconducting Wire
UT Knoxville physics professor Jim Thompson and research assistant professor Yuri L. Zuev are members of a team that won R&D Magazine’s “R&D 100 Award” for their work on superconducting wires. Along with their colleagues, Thompson and Zuev created and tested a kind of superconducting wire that makes electricity transfer more efficient.