COLDEST - Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory - Leiden, the Netherlands
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The coldest place on Earth, the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory in Leiden.
Waymark Code: WMHQ1B
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 08/02/2013
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On 10 July 1908 the Dutch physicist Professor Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was the very first person in the world to liquefy helium and reach a temperature of less then one degree above the absolute zero temperature (-273.15° Celsius or 0 Kelvin). He was awarded the 1913 Nobel prize for this achievement and also for his discovery of superconductivity 3 years later.
For many years Leiden was called the Coldest place on Earth!
This was accomplished in this laboratory of the Leiden University that was named after him later on. This laboratory still exists but is nowadays no longer in use as a laboratory.
Trivium: When Albert Einstein had just graduated, he applied for a job at Kamerlingh Onnes. In 1920 Einstein came to Leiden as a professor, partly through the efforts of Kamerlingh Onnes.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Information panel on site, Wikipedia
Location of coordinates: Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Web Site: [Web Link]
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