Robert Ochsenfeld (18 May 1901 – 5 December 1993) was a German physicist. In 1933 he discovered together with Walther Meissner the Meisner-Ochsenfeld effect. Born in Helberhausen, Germany, Ochsenfeld studied physics at the

Philipps University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the worl ...

. The subject of his PhD was the study of ferromagnetism.Das Auftreten des Ferromagnetismus im System Mangan-Stickstoff. In: Annalen der Physik, Folge 5, Band 12, Heft 3: S. 253–384. In 1932-1933 he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin in the low temperature group headed by Meissner. Leaving the PTR, he taught at the National Political Institutes of Education in Potsdam until 1940, followed by research for new weapons in World War II. After the war, he worked until retirement in the

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(PTB), the successor of the PTR with focus on magnetic materials.

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1901 births 1993 deaths People from Hilchenbach 20th-century German physicists People from the Province of Westphalia {{Germany-physicist-stub