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Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found... →
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by... →
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of... →
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days... →
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school... →