Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Leiden University

Nobel Laureate in Physics (1913)

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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist. He received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures, which led to the production of liquid helium. He is also known for discovering superconductivity.