Download This PaperSomething About the Mechanism of Induction: The Forgotten Work of Berta De Haas-Lorentz on Diamagnetism in Superconductors
7 Pages Posted: 10 May 2025
Abstract
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. 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.
Keywords: superconductors, perfect diamagnetism
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Venditti, Giulia and Beenakker, Carlo and Rademaker, Louk, Something About the Mechanism of Induction: The Forgotten Work of Berta De Haas-Lorentz on Diamagnetism in Superconductors. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5249946 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5249946
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