Word: kamerlingh
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...solid helium. But the quantity was only one cubic centimeter, i. e., one-sixteenth cubic inch or one-fourth of a teaspoonful. That quantity lasted for only a moment, changing into liquid helium, a colorless, mobile liquid, which Professor Keesom's predecessor at the Leyden cryogenic laboratory, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), had obtained...
...liquefying helium, Professor Kamerlingh Onnes received the 1913 Nobel Prize for physics...
Died. Dr. H. Kamerlingh Onnes, 73, famed as the first scientist to liquefy helium, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1913), Emeritus Professor and Director of the Physical Laboratory at the University of Leyden; at Leyden, Holland...