PHYSICIST

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1853 - 1926

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch: [ˈɦɛikə ˈkaːmərlɪŋ ˈɔnəs]; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist. After studying in Groningen and Heidelberg he became professor of experimental physics at the University of Leiden where he taught from 1882 to 1923. In 1904 he established a cryogenics labority where he exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes has received more than 428,664 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is the 63rd most popular physicist (down from 54th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 27th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is most famous for his discovery of superconductivity. He was the first to liquefy helium, and he discovered that mercury has a critical temperature of 4.2 degrees Kelvin.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 63 out of 851. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ludwig Boltzmann, Hermann von Helmholtz, Robert Andrews Millikan, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and Otto Stern. After him are J. Hans D. Jensen, Eugene Wigner, Johannes Stark, Rudolf Clausius, Otto von Guericke, and Lev Landau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 6. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, Cecil Rhodes, Hendrik Lorentz, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. After him are Carl Larsson, Chulalongkorn, Albrecht Kossel, Aleksei Brusilov, José Martí, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1926, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 10. Before him are Mehmed VI, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Mary Cassatt, and Felix Dzerzhinsky. After him are Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Symon Petliura, Emil Kraepelin, Louise of Sweden, and Rudolph Valentino.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 30 out of 1,646. Before him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Juliana of the Netherlands (1909), Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165), Rutger Hauer (1944), and Louis van Gaal (1951). After him are William I of the Netherlands (1772), William III of England (1650), Marco van Basten (1964), William II of the Netherlands (1792), Guus Hiddink (1946), and André Rieu (1949).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes ranks 7. Before him are Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Pieter Zeeman (1865), and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837). After him are Peter Debye (1884), Frits Zernike (1888), Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), and Jan Ingenhousz (1730).

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