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Walter Meißner was born in Berlin in 1882, where he studied machine construction and physics, promoting with Max Planck. He then entered the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. From 1922 to 1925 he established the worlds 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 Technical College in Munich. After World War II he became the first president of the Bavarian Science Academy. In 1946 he became director of the academies first low temperature research comission. Laboratories were located in Herrsching am Ammersee until 1965, when they were moved to Garching. Walter Meißner died in Munich in 1974.
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