Max Robert Schafroth

Max Robert Schafroth (8 February 1923, Burgdorf, Switzerland – 29 May 1959, North Queensland, Australia) was a Swiss theoretical physicist who made important contributions to the theory of superconductivity. In 1954, he proposed that electron pairing was the physical mechanism responsible for superconductivity. Working together with John Markus Blatt and Stuart Thomas Butler at the University of Sydney in the 1950s, Schafroth developed a theory that explained superconductivity as a Bose-Einstein condensation of electron pairs, the idea relevant to high-temperature superconductivity.