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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 Munich Institute of Technology, his doctoral supervisor being Max Planck. He then entered the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. From 1922 to 1925, he established the world's third largest Helium-liquifier, and discovered in 1933 the Meissner effect, damping of the magnetic field in superconductors. One year later, he was called as chair in technical physics at the Institute of Technology in Munich. After World War II, he became the president of the Bavarian 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 to Garching. Walther Meißner died in Munich in 1974.

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Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (in German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Freising outside of Munich).
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Max Planck

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Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor. The phenomenon was discovered by Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld in 1933 by measuring the flux distribution outside of tin and lead specimens as they were
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magnetic field is a field that permeates space and which exerts a magnetic force on moving electric charges and magnetic dipoles. Magnetic fields surround electric currents, magnetic dipoles, and changing electric fields.
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Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at extremely low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect).
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The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge within their subject.
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Also spelled "Garching bei Muenchen" (without "ü").

Also see: Garching an der Alz in Altötting district.

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