1876 - 1956
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, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 589 out of 717. Before 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.
1919 - 2021
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 583
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 584
1920 - 1998
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 585
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 586
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 587
1739 - 1805
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 588
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 589
1724 - 1803
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 590
1871 - 1950
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 591
1848 - 1901
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 592
1894 - 1954
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 593
1915 - 2006
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 594
1927 - 2020
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 595
Among people born in 1876, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 134. Before 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 139. Before 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.
1876 - 1968
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 128
1876 - 1956
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 129
1876 - 1959
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 130
1876 - 1966
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 131
1876 - 1946
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 132
1876 - 1959
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 133
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 134
1876 - 1946
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 135
1876 - 1939
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 136
1876 - 1958
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 137
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 138
1876 - 1931
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 139
1876 - 1959
HPI: 47.49
Rank: 140
1887 - 1956
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 133
1900 - 1956
HPI: 48.35
Rank: 134
1869 - 1956
HPI: 48.27
Rank: 135
1876 - 1956
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 136
1870 - 1956
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 137
1888 - 1956
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 138
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 139
1875 - 1956
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 140
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 141
1882 - 1956
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 142
1891 - 1956
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 143
1896 - 1956
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 144
1894 - 1956
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 145
Among people born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 623 out of 1,427. Before 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).
1901 - 1985
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 617
1888 - 1956
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 618
1901 - 1995
HPI: 47.93
Rank: 619
1797 - 1871
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 620
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 621
1968 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 622
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 623
1632 - 1706
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 624
1580 - 1621
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 625
1911 - 1974
HPI: 47.65
Rank: 626
1923 - 2005
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 627
1942 - 1975
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 628
1986 - Present
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 629
Among physicists born in Netherlands, Willem Hendrik Keesom ranks 19. Before 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).
1946 - Present
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 13
1894 - 1952
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 14
1909 - 2000
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 15
1902 - 1978
HPI: 53.83
Rank: 16
1889 - 1950
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 17
1878 - 1960
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 18
1876 - 1956
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 19
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 20
1889 - 1959
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 21
1870 - 1926
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 22
1918 - 2000
HPI: 44.28
Rank: 23
1946 - Present
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 24