Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1913

for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium

educated at: University of Groningen

start time: 1870

Heidelberg University

end time: 1873
start time: 1871
employer: Leiden University

start time: 9/3/1882
end time: 9/15/1924
member of: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

start time: 1883

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

start time: 1925

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

start time: 4/4/1918

National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1920

Academy of Sciences of Turin

start time: 3/5/1922

Royal Society of London

start time: 3/23/1916

Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Russian Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
position held: rector magnificus of Leiden University

end time: 1904
start time: 1903
doctoral student: Gerbert H. Fabius
Adriaan Lebret
Willem Tuyn
Eliza C. de Vries
Pieter G. Cath
Leendert M. J. Stoel
Arend Th. van Urk
Leonard C. Jackson
Anthony van Eldik
Charles Hartman
Hendrik A. Kuypers
Cornelis Braak
Johan D.A. Boks
Remmelt Sissingh
Willem van Bemmelen
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt
Ewoud van Everdingen
Johannes Kuenen
Jacob Clay
Marc de Haas
Wander Johannes de Haas
Pieter Zeeman
Frans Michel Penning
Claude August Crommelin
field of work: physics
experimental physics
cold
cryophysics
superconductivity
history of science
occupation: inventor
physicist
university teacher
scientist
notable work: superconductivity

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