Top Singapore-based physicist relocates to China after superconductor breakthrough

Stephen Lin Er Chow, a physicist who designed a groundbreaking copper-free superconducting oxide capable of high-temperature superconductivity, has joined Zhejiang University from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Last year, at 27, Chow published the findings in the journal Nature, marking the first top-tier publication for the NUS lab since its establishment two decades ago. Confirming to the South China Morning Post that he had joined Zhejiang University full-time, Chow said “I...

By Shi Huang