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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛikə ˈkaːmərlɪŋ ˈɔnəs]; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who pioneered the study of matter at low temperatures. He liquefied helium, discovered superconductivity, and received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to physics.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913 for his work on low-temperature physics and his production of liquid helium. He discovered superconductivity, the almost total lack of electrical resistance in certain materials when cooled to a temperature near.
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist who discovered liquid helium and superconductivity. He also worked to reconcile researchers after World War I. Learn more about his life, work and achievements on NobelPrize.org.
On April 8, 1911, at the Leiden Cryogenic Laboratory in the Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and his collaborators immersed a mercury capillary in liquid helium and saw the mercury's...
Sep 1, 2010 · A terse entry for 8 April 1911 in Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’s notebook 56 records the first observation of superconductivity. The highlighted Dutch sentence Kwik nagenoeg nul means “Mercury [’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].”
Read the Nobel Lecture by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the properties of substances at low temperatures. Learn about his discovery of liquid helium and his contributions to low-temperature research.
