Heinz London (Bonn, Germany 1907-1970) was a German Physicist. He worked with his brother Fritz on superconductivity, discovering the London equations[1] when working in Oxford, at the Clarendon Laboratory; these equations gave a first explanation to the Meissner effect (and, so, to the properties of superconductors). He is known as well for being the inventor of the dilution refrigerator, a cryogenic device that uses liquid helium.
After studying in different German universities, he had to flee to England in 1933 along with his brother Fritz due to the Nazi racial laws.
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- ^ F. London and H. London (1935). "The Electromagnetic Equations of the Supraconductor". Proceedings of the Royal Society A 149 (866): 71–88. doi:. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4630%2819350301%29149%3A866%3C71%3ATEEOTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2.
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