---
aliases:
- Brian D. Josephson
- Josephson
born: 1940-01-04
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
location: Cardiff, Wales
summary: His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting
  material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the
  quark detector used in Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann's psychokinesis experiment at
  SRI.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- SRI
---

Brian D. Josephson is a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect. He is also a vocal proponent of [extrasensory perception](/concepts/extrasensory-perception/) (ESP) and has shown interest in [parapsychology](/concepts/parapsychology/)[^1].

His work on the Josephson junction, a configuration of two layers of superconducting material sandwiching a thin layer of non-superconducting material, was part of the quark detector used in [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) and [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/)'s [psychokinesis](/concepts/psychokinesis/) experiment at [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/). The design of this device was never made public, making it impossible for anyone to have preexisting knowledge of its appearance[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.