Meissner, Walter

Twenty years later, in 1933, the German physicist Walter Meissner (together with his co-worker Robert Ochsenfeld) discovered that superconductors cannot be crossed by magnetic field lines. This property is today defined as the Meissner effect. 

FIG. 15.24 Schematic representation of the four roller extensional rheometer, designed by Meissner (1972) to attain high Hencky strains. Two sets of rotary clamps are individually driven by two motors at constant rotation rates. The force in the sample is measured by a transducer F mounted on a leaf spring. From Barnes, Hutton and Walters (Gen Ref 1993). Courtesy Elsevier Science Publishers. 

This, then, was the man who developed the program in chemical engineering so boldly outlined by Little and Walker. He surrounded himself from the beginning with men of promise in their respective fields. These included William McAdams, Clark Robinson, Robert Haslam, Walter Whitman, Harold Weber, and William Ryan, who unfortunately died in 1933. Robinson died in the late 1940 s, Haslam in the early 1960 s and Whitman, Lewis, and McAdams in the early 1970 s. During the period from the mid-1920 s to World War II, Ernst Hauser, Hoyt Hottel, Thomas Sherwood, Edwin CilUland, Herman Meissner, Glenn Williams, and Edward Vivian would be added. These men formed the framework on which the present staff was built. 

The Meissner effect Is named for Walter Meissner, 1882-1974, who with Robert Ochsenfeld discovered the effect In 1933. 

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