The discovery of superconductivity

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Abstract

On 10 July 1908, in his laboratory at Leiden University, the great Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) experienced the most glorious moment of his career. That was the day he first liquefied helium and thus opened an entirely new chapter in low-temperature physics. (See the article in PHYSICS TODAY, March 2008, page 36.) © 2010 American Institute of Physics.

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Van Delft, D., & Kes, P. (2010). The discovery of superconductivity. Physics Today, 63(9), 38–43. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3490499

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