The Leiden Program; Nine Offprints on Low-Temperature Physics

by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

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Leiden: Eduard IJdo, 1901-1926. First Edition. 9 vols. Kamerlingh Onnes directed the Physical Laboratory at the University of Leiden for nearly four decades, building it into the foremost cryogenic research facility in the world. His was a program of extraordinary methodological ambition: gases compressed, cooled, and measured with a precision that no laboratory had previously achieved, all in pursuit of understanding matter

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