Willem Hendrik Keesom

Willem Hendrik Keesom
Born 21 June 1876 (1876-06-21)
Texel
Died 24 March 1956 (1956-03-25)
Leiden
Nationality Dutch
Fields physics
Doctoral advisor Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Known for helium

Willem Hendrik Keesom (pronounced "Case-ohm"[1][2]) (21 June 1876, Texel 24 March 1956, Leiden) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole-dipole interactions in 1921. Thus, dipole-dipole interactions are also known as Keesom interactions. He was previously a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had discovered superconductivity (a feat for which Kamerlingh Onnes received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics).

He also discovered the lambda-point transition specific-heat maximum between Helium-I and Helium-2 in 1930 (Basic Superfluids p25/Tony Guenault).

In 1924 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

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References

  1. Willem Hendrik Keesom pronunciation
  2. Voiceless E
  3. "Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876 - 1956)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 28 July 2015.

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