However, in June 1986, K. Alex Muller and Georg Bednorz working in IBM Zurich broke the record of critical temperature superconductivity in lanthanum barium copper oxide (LBCO) to 35 K above absolute zero, which had remained unbroken at 23 K for 17 years.
The meeting caused a surge in mainstream media interest in superconductors, and laboratories around the world raced to pursue breakthroughs in the field.
So in the follow-up March APS meeting at New Orleans a special evening session called Woodstock of Physics-II was hastily organized to highlight the synthesis and properties of these new, first-ever 'triple digit superconductors'.
Additional researchers including Allen M. Hermann (at that time at the University of Arkansas), the co-discoverer of the thallium system, and Laura H. Greene (then with AT&T Labs) were panelists.
On March 5, 2007, many of the original participants reconvened in Denver to recognize and review the session on its 20-year anniversary;[2] the "reunion" was again chaired by Maple.