Oral history interview with Robert Ochsenfeld, 1992 November 13.

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Oral history interview with Robert Ochsenfeld, 1992 November 13.

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Biographical survey, especially of his time as a student at Marburg unde E. Grüneisen; moved to Physikalische-Technische REichsanstalt (PTR), Berlin, in 1932. Conducted research there which led to the discovery of the Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect; recollections of Walther meissner, Johannes Stark, Abraham Esau and other colleaguews at the PTR; events there till the end of the war and afterward, especially reconstruction as the Physikalische-technishe bundesanstalt. Note: because of technical difficulties the first part of the interview was lost, dealing especially with the history of the discovery of the Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect. A resumé can be found in Hoffmann's article in the "Physikalischen Blättern" vol. 49, no. 10 (1993), pp. 899-901, attached to the interview transcript.

Transcript: 17 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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