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

occupation: university teacher
physicist
inventor
scientist
field of work: superconductivity
experimental physics
history of science
cold
physics
cryophysics
educated at: Heidelberg University
start time: 1871
end time: 1873
University of Groningen
start time: 1870
employer: Leiden University
start time: 9/3/1882
end time: 9/15/1924
position held: rector magnificus of Leiden University
start time: 1903
end time: 1904
member of: Royal Society of London
start time: 3/23/1916
French Academy of Sciences
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
start time: 1883
National Academy of Sciences
start time: 1920
Academy of Sciences of Turin
start time: 3/5/1922
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
start time: 4/4/1918
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
start time: 1925
Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student: Leendert M. J. Stoel
Eliza C. de Vries
Adriaan Lebret
Anthony van Eldik
Charles Hartman
Cornelis Braak
Gerbert H. Fabius
Hendrik A. Kuypers
Pieter G. Cath
Willem Tuyn
Arend Th. van Urk
Leonard C. Jackson
Johan D.A. Boks
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt
Ewoud van Everdingen
Marc de Haas
Johannes Kuenen
Jacob Clay
Frans Michel Penning
Remmelt Sissingh
Claude August Crommelin
Willem van Bemmelen
Wander Johannes de Haas
Pieter Zeeman
notable work: superconductivity

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