Lucky 7 - Kamerlingh Onneslab - Leiden, Netherlands
Posted by: naj16
N 52° 09.378 E 004° 29.388
31U E 601916 N 5779469
In the vincinity of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory you can find my Lucky 7
Waymark Code: WMHM3N
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 07/22/2013
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Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory
The laboratory is named in honour of H. Kamerlingh Onnes, who was one of the first professors in experimental physics at Leiden University.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques and used these to explore how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquefy helium. His production of extreme cryogenic temperatures led to his discovery of superconductivity in 1911: for certain materials, electrical resistance abruptly vanishes at very low temperatures.