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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1853 - 1926

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch: [ˈɦɛikə ˈkaːmərlɪŋ ˈɔnəs]; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) 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 Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero. In 1908, he became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin, at the time the coldest temperature achieved on earth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is the 64th most popular physicist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 30th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is most famous for his discovery of superconductivity. He was the first to liquefy helium, and he discovered that mercury has a critical temperature of 4.2 degrees Kelvin.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 64 out of 851. Before him are Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, and Andrei Sakharov. After him are Max Born, Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Philipp Lenard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 5. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, Cecil Rhodes, Hendrik Lorentz, and Wilhelm Ostwald. After him are Albrecht Kossel, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Chulalongkorn, Carl Larsson, José Martí, Aleksei Brusilov, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1926, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 8. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mehmed VI, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Emperor Taishō, and Harry Houdini. After him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Mary Cassatt, and Symon Petliura.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 24 out of 1,646. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Hugo Grotius (1583), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Abel Tasman (1603), Sophia of Hanover (1630), and Willem Barentsz (1550). After him are M. C. Escher (1898), Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880), Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1967), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Juliana of the Netherlands (1909), and Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 5. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), and Pieter Zeeman (1865). After him are Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Peter Debye (1884), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Gerard 't Hooft (1946).

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