Meissner Effect Definition
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noun
The effect whereby magnetic fields are excluded from a superconductor's interior if the superconductor is below a critical temperature, since introducing a magnetic field immediately creates electric currents in the superconductor that cancel the magnetic field. The Meissner effect is responsible for the diamagnetic properties of superconductors.
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Meissner effect
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Meissner effectsOrigin of Meissner Effect
After Fritz Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German physicist who discovered it in collaboration with Robert Ochsenfeld (1901–1993), German physicist
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For Walther Meißner, German physicist.
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