discussed in biography...joined the faculty of the Utrecht veterinary school. Six years later he returned to Leiden as professor of experimental physics. At the Onnes laboratory there in 1926, he successfully solidified helium. In 1932 he achieved the temperature of -457.6° F (-272° C), just two degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero. His book Helium appeared in 1942.
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