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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 35,563 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Willem Hendrik Keesom is the 589th most popular physicist (down from 524th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 498th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 589 out of 717Before him are Isaak Khalatnikov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Ted Fujita, Bill Nye, John D. Barrow, and John Robison. After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, Giovanni Giorgi, Henry Augustus Rowland, John Lennard-Jones, Alvin M. Weinberg, and Joan Feynman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 134Before him are Walter Tewksbury, Robert Yerkes, Max O. Lorenz, Stylianos Gonatas, Pantelis Karasevdas, and Paul Rivet. After him are Nikolay Burdenko, Olav Duun, John Marshall, Elmer Drew Merrill, Marvin Hart, and Felix Jacoby. Among people deceased in 1956, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 139Before him are Norman L. Bowen, César Espinoza, Gerrit Smith Miller, Robert Yerkes, Jan Šrámek, and Albert Kluyver. After him are Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Elmer Drew Merrill, George Bancroft, E. A. Dupont, Louis Bromfield, and Billy Bishop.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 623 out of 1,427Before him are Jan de Quay (1901), Albert Kluyver (1888), Peter van de Kamp (1901), Jan Jacob Rochussen (1797), Martin Jol (1956), and Zara Whites (1968). After him are Tylman van Gameren (1632), Dirk Hartog (1580), Kick Smit (1911), Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), Bas Jan Ader (1942), and Ryan Babel (1986).

Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 19Before him are Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Hans Kramers (1894), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Dirk Coster (1889), and Wander Johannes de Haas (1878). After him are Jan Burgers (1895), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Abraham Pais (1918), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).