John K. Hulm

John Kenneth Hulm (4 July 1923, Southport, UK – 16 January 2004) was a British-American physicist and engineer, known for the development of superconducting materials with applications to high-field superconducting magnets. In 1953 with George F. Hardy he discovered the first A-15 superconducting alloy.

John K. Hulm received his undergraduate degree in 1943 from the University of Cambridge and then worked on radar development until the end of WWII. After the war he returned to Cambridge and received his PhD in 1949 His thesis advisor was David Shoenberg. At the University of Chicago, Hulm was a postdoc from 1949 to 1951 and an assistant professor from 1951 to 1954.

Awards and honours 1964 — John Price Wetherill Medal (shared with Howard Aiken, John Eugene Kunzler, and Bernd Matthias) 1979 — American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (shared with John Eugene Kunzler and Bernd T. Matthias) 1980 — Member of the National Academy of Engineering 1988 — Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected publications