The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913
Awarded on: 1913-11-11
"for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"
Affiliations:
- Leiden University – Leiden, the Netherlands
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Born: 1853-09-21 in Groningen, the Netherlands
Gender: male
Field: Dutch experimental physicist (1853–1926)
Biography
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin (K). For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.