Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity & was the first to liquefy this light gas, in 1908
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  April 1911: Kamerlingh Onnes Begins work on Superconductivity. ... begins in 1911, when Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first discovered the phenomenon. ... he joined the faculty at Leiden University and started studying low temperature gases. ... time, Onnes beat Dewar in the race, producing the first liquid helium in July 1908.
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Liquefaction of gases and discovery of superconductivity: two very ...  The fact that both were carried out in the laboratories of Kamerlingh Onnes at .... which, in light of van der Waals's law of corresponding states, might enable him to ..... 1908, Helium was liquefied for the first time by Dr. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.
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Full Text, PDF - Superconductivity News Forum  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Road to Liquid Helium. Dirk van Delft ... Abstract  I sketch here the scientific biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who in 1908 was the first to liquefy helium and in 1911 discovered superconductivity. A son of a .... Above the critical temperature, condensation of the gas is impossible...
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The discovery of superconductivity  the great Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853. 1926) experienced the ... That was the day he first liquefied helium and thus opened an entirely new...
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - Wikipedia  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson-Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium for the first time. ... On 10 July 1908, he was the first to liquefy helium, using several precooling stages and the...
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J! Archive - Show #3480, aired 1999-10-22  This pulp author was past 50 when he wrote his first novel, "The Big Sleep" .... In early 1880 Wabash in this state became the first city to illuminate its streets by ... state of matter can be made by heating a gas or applying an electric field to it...
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20 Years of Moving Atoms, One by One | WIRED  Sep 30, 2009 ... It can pick up individual atoms one by one and move them around to ... 28, 1989, an IBM physicist, Don Eigler, became the first person to ... The ability to manipulate atoms, build structures of our own, design and .... These words were created by laying carbon monoxide molecules on a flat copper surface.
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  August 18 and October 20, 1868: Discovery of Helium. ... Pierre Janssen (top) and Joseph Norman Lockyer (bottom), discovers of helium. ... Astronomers were particularly interested in studying solar prominences: colorful flame-like bursts now known ... In 1868, Janssen traveled to Guntur, India, to observe the solar eclipse.
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Superconductors and Superconductivity :: physics science ...  Below 4K, mercury passed into a new state with electrical properties unlike ... That is why it is important for superconductors to have very low impurities; ... metals with few impurities reach a superconducting state at low temperatures. ... Zero resistance can only occur with DC current, which does not require an electric field.
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Helium, Chemical Element - structure, uses, elements, metal, gas ...  Helium was first discovered not on Earth, but in the Sun. In 1868 French astronomer Pierre Janssen (1824-1907) studied light from the Sun during a solar eclipse. ... The name comes from the Greek word helios for "sun." French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium after studying the Sun during a full solar eclipse.
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Who Discovered Helium? - Universe Today  Mar 19, 2016 ... Whereas we tend to think of Helium as the hilarious gas that does ... The first evidence of helium was obtained on August 18th, 1868 by French astronomer Jules Janssen. While in Guntur, India, Janssen observed a solar eclipse through a prism, ... named the element helios, after the Greek word for the Sun.
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Lise Meitner - Wikipedia  Lise Meitner (7 November 1878  27 October 1968) was an Austrian physicist who worked on ... Meitner and Otto Frisch understood that the fission process, which splits the .... to create elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92) in the laboratory. ... After the Anschluss in March 1938, her situation became difficult.
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Robert Bunsen - Wikipedia  Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811  16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist ... His discovery of the use of iron oxide hydrate as a precipitating agent is still today the most...
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Robert Bunsen - Wikipedia  Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811  16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in ... 3 Personality; 4 Retirement and death; 5 See also; 6 References; 7 Further...
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Early Study of Radioactivity: Marie Curie - Le Moyne  Before discovering elements, though, Curie carried out the work reported in this .... Eugne Demaray had discovered the rare earth metal europium in 1896. ... to the rare earth metals, so it would not be surprising to find some uranium or...
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feynman-novideos.ppt - EECS at UC Berkeley  Manhattan Project ... Made a breakthrough in the physics of the superfluidity of super cold liquid helium ... Investigated Challenger accident in 1986; Feynman passed away on Feb. ... that they do other things that a few other humans do (like playing bongo drums) is insulting to me. I am human enough to tell you to go to hell.
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Discovery of the Electron: J. J. Thomson - Le Moyne  Thomson was the Cavendish professor of Experimental Physics at ... In 1899, he measured the charge of the particles, and speculated on how they ... Thomson was not the only physicist to measure the charge-to-mass ratio of cathode rays in 1897, ... In this lecture I wish to give an account of some investigations which have...
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Robert Bunsen - Wikipedia  Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811  16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. ... He discontinued his work with Roscoe in 1859 and joined Gustav Kirchhoff to...
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THE BENZENE RING - DREAM ANALYSIS - NYTimes.com  Aug 16, 1988 ... In 1865 he reported his discovery of the benzene ring as the basis for another ... of Transference,'' Kekule discovered the benzene ring after dreaming of ''the ... In another version, Kekule dreamed of a self-devouring snake ... In others, the dream involved six snakes, or six monkeys linking hands and tails.
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CTR Wilson - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 ... Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on the 14th of February, 1869, ... gas, there was no longer any doubt that ions in gases could be detected and, ... Early in 1911, however, he was the first person to see and photograph the tracks of individual alpha- and beta-particles and electrons.
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William Ramsay | Chemical Heritage Foundation  Jul 22, 2015 ... The Scottish chemist William Ramsay (18521916) is known for work that ... table, variously called over time the inert, rare, or noble gases. ... Prizes in 1904, Ramsay in chemistry and Lord Rayleigh in physics. ... Discovery of Noble Gases ... isolated neon, krypton, and xenon from the earth's atmosphere.