MEISSNER EFFECT


Meaning of MEISSNER EFFECT in English

/muys"neuhr/ , Physics.

the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.

[ after German physicist Fritz Walther Meissner (1882-1974), who contributed to a description of the effect in 1933 ]

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