Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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1 (of 2) The Cryogenics Laboratory in Leiden, 1919. From left: Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Lorentz, 1922 Nobel Laureate in Physics Niels Bohr and 1913 Nobel Laureate in Physics Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.
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2 (of 2) Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (left) and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (right) in front of the helium-'liquefactor', Leiden 1908.
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