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Willem Hendrik Keesom

1876 - 1956

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Willem Hendrik Keesom () (21 June 1876, Texel – 3 March 1956, Leiden) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions in 1921. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem Hendrik Keesom has received more than 38,378 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Willem Hendrik Keesom is the 551st most popular physicist (up from 589th in 2019), the 585th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 621st in 2019) and the 19th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 551 out of 851. Before him are Norman Holter, Lev Artsimovich, C. P. Snow, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Theodore Lyman IV, and David Deutsch. After him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Albert Betz, Leopoldo Nobili, Augusto Righi, John G. Trump, and Paul Davies.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 119. Before him are Aino Ackté, Ioannis Georgiadis, Pingali Venkayya, Stephanos Christopoulos, Erhard Schmidt, and Borisav Stanković. After him are Maria Ouspenskaya, Alaiza Pashkevich, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Tiburcio Carías Andino, Hiroshi Yoshida, and Hrachia Acharian. Among people deceased in 1956, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 124. Before him are Henri Callot, Johannes Jørgensen, Lewis Terman, Navvab Safavi, Austin Osman Spare, and Nikolaos Trikoupis. After him are Herminio Masantonio, Ostap Vyshnya, Zoltán Halmay, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Johnny Claes, and Hans Carossa.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 585 out of 1,646. Before him are Kees Kist (1952), Jan Mostaert (1475), Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1562), Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau (1770), Semmy Schilt (1973), and Candy Dulfer (1969). After him are Gisbertus Voetius (1589), Gerrit Schimmelpenninck (1794), Michael Reiziger (1973), Cornelis Pietersz Bega (1630), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), and Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 19. Before him are Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Hendrik Casimir (1909), and Abraham Pais (1918). After him are Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Jan Burgers (1895), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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