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Willem Hendrik Keesom
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Willem Hendrik Keesom (ˈkeɪsoʊm) (21 June 1876, Texel – 3 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-II in 1930.
In 1924 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1966, the minor planet
9686 Keesom was named after him.
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