- Walther Meißner
Infobox_Scientist
name = Fritz Walther Meißner"'
birth_date = birth date|1882|12|16|mf=y
birth_place =Berlin ,Germany
death_date = death date and age|1974|11|16|1882|12|16
death_place =Munich ,Germany
residence =Germany
nationality = German
field =Physicist
work_institutions =Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Technical University of Munich
alma_mater =Technical University of Munich
doctoral_advisor =Max Planck
known_for =Meissner effect Superconductivity Fritz Walther Meißner (or Meissner) (
December 16 ,1882 ,Berlin –November 16 ,1974 ,Munich ) was a German technical physicist.He studied mechanical engineering and physics at the
Technical University of Munich , his doctoral supervisor beingMax Planck . He then entered thePhysikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt . From 1922 to 1925, he established the world's third largest Helium-liquifier, and discovered in 1933 theMeissner effect , [Walther Meißner and R. Ochsenfeld, Naturwissenschaften V21, p. 787 (1933).] damping of themagnetic field insuperconductor s. One year later, he was called as chair in technical physics at theTechnical University of Munich .After
World War II , he became the president of theBavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities . In 1946, he was appointed director of the academy's first low temperature research commission. Laboratories were located in Herrsching am Ammersee until 1965, when they were moved toGarching . Meißner died in Munich in 1974.References
External links
* [http://www.wmi.badw.de/index-en.html Walther Meißner Institute]
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