Table of contents for The Cold Wars: A History of Superconductivity by Jean Matricon and Georges Waysand

Preface

Translator's Note

The Logic of Low Temperature

Perpetual Motion?

Metals and Theories

Experiments and Their Interpretations

The True Image of Superconductivity

Fritz

Not Your Everyday Liquid

The Russian Cold

In Cambridge in Spite of Stalin, In Moscow Because of Stalin

Superfluidity: Theories and Polemics

The War, the Bomb, and the Cold

Radar and Superconductivity

The Ions Also Move

East Is East, and West Is West

Now, How to Grab the Tiger by the Tail?

John Bardeen's Relentless Pursuit

The Golden Age

After the Golden Age: Tomorrow, Always Tomorrow

The Age of Materials

A Swiss Revolution: The Superconducting Oxides

Superconductivity as Theater

Almost Twenty Years Later

Notes

Index