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The first phenomenological approach to the electromagnetic behavior of superconductors was published in 1935 by the brothers Fritz and Heinz LONDON. Fascinated by the results of MEISSNER and OCHSENFELD, who had shown that within the superconductor the magnetic field B vanishes irrespective of the thermal and magnetic history of the sample, they understood that the key feature of superconductivity is not the disappearance of the electrical resistance but rather the expulsion of the magnetic flux.
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Mangin, P., Kahn, R. (2017). LONDON THEORY. In: Superconductivity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50527-5_2
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