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Main Authors: Venditti, Giulia, Beenakker, Carlo, Rademaker, Louk
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05227
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author Venditti, Giulia
Beenakker, Carlo
Rademaker, Louk
author_facet Venditti, Giulia
Beenakker, Carlo
Rademaker, Louk
contents In 1925, Dr. Geertruida Luberta "Berta" de Haas-Lorentz published the paper "Iets over het mechanisme van inductieverschijnselen" in the journal Physica. Her paper was the first to discuss perfect diamagnetism of superconductors, eight years before the discovery of the Meissner effect, when the essential difference between the two phenomena was not understood. Unfortunately, her work was almost forgotten by the scientific community. To counter this, we translate her seminal 1925 paper from Dutch into English. We provide an overview of the life of Dr. De Haas-Lorentz, and comment on her pioneering contribution to the theory of superconductivity.
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spellingShingle Something about the Mechanism of Induction Phenomena: The forgotten work of Berta de Haas-Lorentz on diamagnetism in superconductors
Venditti, Giulia
Beenakker, Carlo
Rademaker, Louk
History and Philosophy of Physics
Superconductivity
In 1925, Dr. Geertruida Luberta "Berta" de Haas-Lorentz published the paper "Iets over het mechanisme van inductieverschijnselen" in the journal Physica. Her paper was the first to discuss perfect diamagnetism of superconductors, eight years before the discovery of the Meissner effect, when the essential difference between the two phenomena was not understood. Unfortunately, her work was almost forgotten by the scientific community. To counter this, we translate her seminal 1925 paper from Dutch into English. We provide an overview of the life of Dr. De Haas-Lorentz, and comment on her pioneering contribution to the theory of superconductivity.
title Something about the Mechanism of Induction Phenomena: The forgotten work of Berta de Haas-Lorentz on diamagnetism in superconductors
topic History and Philosophy of Physics
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05227