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Doctorate in Leiden: In the Lab of Kamerlingh Onnes (1947–1948)

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Nico Bloembergen

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Abstract

The Schermerhorn/Drees cabinet was the first in the Netherlands after the Second World War, lasting from 24 June 1945 to 3 July 1946. Wim Schermerhorn (1894–1977) had studied civil engineering and became an assistant in geodesy at the Technical University in Delft.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853—Leiden, 1926) was a Dutch physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, and professor at Leiden University. “By measurement to knowledge” was the slogan of his laboratory. He was the first to make liquid helium and discovered superconductivity at near absolute zero temperature.

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Notes

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    An academic institute for fundamental physics with great importance in society, founded by FOM.

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    The Smyth Report was named after Henry De Wolf Smyth, who had written up the history of the Manhattan nuclear bomb project in a report. It was made public on 12 August 1945.

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    A phonon is a quantized collective vibration mode of a crystal and is in fact a quasi-particle (Sagara DM. Ordering and low energy excitations in strongly correlated bronzes. Thesis, University of Groningen, 2006).

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    Potassium alum is the chemical compound KAl(SO4)2.H2O.

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    Teylers Museum in the city of Haarlem was founded in 1778 by Pieter Teyler, a silk merchant, who wrote in his will that a foundation should be formed to promote theology, science, and the arts. Charity and poor relief were also part of the foundation’s mission.

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Herber, R. (2019). Doctorate in Leiden: In the Lab of Kamerlingh Onnes (1947–1948). In: Nico Bloembergen. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25737-8_8

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