Pieter Rijke
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Petrus "Pieter" Leonardus Rijke was a Dutch physicist who was Professor in Experimental physics at Leiden University. He spent his scientific career exploring the physics of electricity, and is known
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch experimental physicist who became the first to liquefy helium, cooling it to near 1.5 kelvin. For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.
Pieter Rijke
…Lorentz and Johannes van der Waals, who would win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902 and 1910, respectively. Rijke retired in 1882, and was succeeded by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes as Professor of Experimental Physics at Leiden University. Rijke died on 7 April 1899 in Leiden at the age of 86…
Kamerlingh Onnes in 1913
Commemorative plaque on the Kamerlingh Onnes Building in Leiden.