biography
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Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike
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pronunciation:
[kamerling awnes]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1926)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Groningen, The Netherlands. He studied at Heidelberg and Groningen, and became professor of physics at Leyden. He was the first to produce liquid helium, and worked in low-temperature physics, discovering the phenomenon of superconductivity. He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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