Brian Josephson is a Welsh theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson Effect. Born and brought up in Cardiff, he joined University of Cambridge for his undergraduate studies and remained there until he had earned his PhD. He became interested in superconductivity while he was still an undergraduate student and soon developed the theory of ‘Josephson’s effect’ in 1962, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics eleven years later. After a brief spell of postdoctoral studies in the USA, he joined the University of Cambridge and remained there for the rest of his working life. From the end of 1960s, he became interested in supernormal. Trinity College has long association with studies in paranormal; this may have kindled such an interest in him. To the disgust of scientific fraternity he soon began advocating that there may be some truth behind phenomenon like telepathy, psycho kinesis, homeopathy etc. His motto in life is ‘nullius in verba’ ("Take nobody's word for it”) and he has adhered to it very strictly.
