Nobel Prize in Physics 1913

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 was awarded to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"

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