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Heinz London

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Heinz London · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; superconductivity and the London penetration depth

When

1907, Bonn, Germany — 1970, Oxford, United Kingdom

Where

Germany · United Kingdom

Biography

Heinz London is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; superconductivity and the London penetration depth

How & why

Heinz London was a German-British physicist who, with his brother Fritz, developed the London equations describing superconductivity and introduced the concept of the London penetration depth. Forced from Nazi Germany for being Jewish, he settled in Britain and later contributed to isotope separation and low-temperature physics. He was Jewish, from a German Jewish family in Bonn.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; superconductivity and the London penetration depth

1907

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics