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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch experimental physicist (1853–1926)

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist. After studying in Groningen and Heidelberg, he became Professor of Experimental Physics at Leiden University, where he taught from 1882 to 1923. In 1904, he established a cryogenics laboratory where he exploited the…
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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