Discovered in 1933 by Walther Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld, the Meissner effect is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state. When a material is cooled below its temperatura critica ([latex]T_c[/latex]) in the presence of a weak external magnetic field, it actively cancels all magnetic flux inside it, becoming a perfect diamagnet.

















