Robert Ochsenfeld

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German physicist human person physical phenomenon physicist

Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.

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Label Occurrences
Robert Ochsenfeld canonical 4

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German physicist ⓘ
human ⓘ
person ⓘ
physical phenomenon ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
coDiscovered Meissner effect ⓘ
Meissner effect ⓘ
surface form: Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect
countryOfCitizenship Germany ⓘ
ethnicGroup German ⓘ
fieldOfWork physics ⓘ
superconductivity ⓘ
superconductivity ⓘ
gender male ⓘ
hasCollaborator Walther Meissner ⓘ
hasDiscoverer Robert Ochsenfeld self-linksurface differs ⓘ
Walther Meissner ⓘ
hasFamilyName Ochsenfeld ⓘ
hasGivenName Robert ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName German ⓘ
namedAfter Robert Ochsenfeld self-linksurface differs ⓘ
Walther Meissner ⓘ
notableFor co-discovery of the Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect ⓘ
research on superconductivity ⓘ
occupation physicist ⓘ
workLocation Germany ⓘ

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Robert Ochsenfeld
Description of subject: Robert Ochsenfeld was a German physicist best known for co-discovering the Meissner effect, a fundamental phenomenon in superconductivity.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Meissner effect → discoveredBy → Robert Ochsenfeld ⓘ
Walther Meissner → coDiscoveredWith → Robert Ochsenfeld ⓘ
Robert Ochsenfeld → namedAfter → Robert Ochsenfeld self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect
Robert Ochsenfeld → hasDiscoverer → Robert Ochsenfeld self-linksurface differs ⓘ
subject surface form: Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect