Publications Introduction Scientists of the Dutch School Van der Waals Kamerlingh Onnes Kuenen Korteweg Keesom Van Laar ... How Fluids Unmix
Selected links Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden Nobel Prize Presentation Speech by Th. Nordstrom, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1913)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) was the son of a well-to-do industrialist from whom he inherited his mechanical propensity. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics at the University of Groningen, his home town. Before he started his graduate work in that city in 1873, he spent three semesters with physicists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in Heidelberg, Germany. By that time he had already won several competitive prizes. In 1879, he obtained his doctorate in physics magna cum laude with Prof. R.A. Mees in Groningen. In 1878, he was appointed an assistant to Johannes Bosscha, Professor of Physics at the Delft Polytechnic School. In 1881, he published a paper, Algemene theorie der vloeistoffen (General theory of liquids), which showed the law of corresponding states can be derived from scaling arguments, based on molecular properties and motion. | |
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