| Date of Birth | 21-September-1853 | |
| Place of Birth |
Groningen (Netherlands, Groningen, Kingdom of the Netherlands) |
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| Nationality | Netherlands | |
| Profession | Physicist | |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques and used these to explore how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquefy helium. His production of extreme cryogenic temperatures led to his discovery of superconductivity in 1911: for certain materials, electrical resistance abruptly vanishes at very low temperatures. | ||
Awards by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
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| Check all the awards nominated and won by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. | ||
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