Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate
Died when: 72 years 153 days (869 months)Star Sign: Libra
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium for the first time, in 1908.
He also discovered superconductivity in 1911.
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