Physics

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 Pdf 723 kB

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Banquet speech

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’ speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1913 (in German) Königliche Hoheiten, Meine Damen, Meine Herren! Mit tiefer Rührung spreche ich bei dieser Feier, welcher die Beteiligung des Königlichen Hauses ihren Zauber verleiht, meinen innigst gefühlten Dank aus für die mir heute erwiesene Ehre, deren Bedeutung noch dadurch erhöht wird,…

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Biographical

I was born in 1928, June 25, in Moscow, USSR (now Russia). My parents were physicians. I graduated from high school in 1943 and was accepted as student of the Institute for Power Engineers. In 1945 I transferred to the Physics Department of the Moscow State University, from which I graduated in 1948 with a…

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