Fritz Walther Meissner was a German physicist known for his work on superconductivity.
Meissner, c. 1968
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy q
Walther Meissner
…to 1904, Meissner studied mechanical engineering at Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin). He then studied physics under Max Planck at the University of Berlin, receiving his Ph.D. in 1907. Meissner joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (now the Physikalisch-Technische…
Plaque at the Humboldt University of Berlin: "Max Planck, discoverer of the elementary quantum of action h, taught in this building from 1889 to 1928."
Planck in 1918, the year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory.
From left to right: Nernst, Einstein, Planck, Millikan, and Laue at a dinner given by Laue in Berlin on 11 November 1931.