Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1913

Investigations into the properties of substances at low temperatures, which have led, amongst other things, to the preparation of liquid helium

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1967

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