Freezing Physics
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and the Quest for Cold
Distributed for Edita-the Publishing House of the Royal
592 pages
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6-2/3 x 9-2/3
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© 2007
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Prologue
1. Between Schifpot en Noorderhaven
2. That wonderful HBS
3. No drinking binges
4. Heidelberg
5. Restless atoms
6. ‘Maintain and refine’
7. Foucault’s pendulum
8. Delft: corresponding states and other matters
9. To Leiden
10. New heights
11. ‘Door meten tot weten’: knowledge through measurement
12. Monstrosity gets a face-lift
13. The fullness of wisdom
14. Cold war (i)
15. The Lorentz series
16. The Zeeman effect
17. A collection of explosive devices
18. Retrograde condensation
19. Into the breach for Van der Waals
20. The blue-collar boys
21. Stolen rooms and other personnel matters
22. Committee work: a necessary evil
23. Cold war (ii)
24. Old peat and neighbourhood squabbling
25. Die Zustandsgleichung
26. Huize ter Wetering
27. Monsieur Zéro Absolu
28. The quantum and zero-point energy
29. ‘Supra-conductivity’
30. A chocolate from Stockholm
31. World War: turning-point
32. Declining years
33. Successors
34. Duty, joy and harmony
Epilogue: the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory
Glossary
Illustration sources
Chronology
Sources and abbreviations/terms used in references to sources
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
Introduction
Prologue
1. Between Schifpot en Noorderhaven
2. That wonderful HBS
3. No drinking binges
4. Heidelberg
5. Restless atoms
6. ‘Maintain and refine’
7. Foucault’s pendulum
8. Delft: corresponding states and other matters
9. To Leiden
10. New heights
11. ‘Door meten tot weten’: knowledge through measurement
12. Monstrosity gets a face-lift
13. The fullness of wisdom
14. Cold war (i)
15. The Lorentz series
16. The Zeeman effect
17. A collection of explosive devices
18. Retrograde condensation
19. Into the breach for Van der Waals
20. The blue-collar boys
21. Stolen rooms and other personnel matters
22. Committee work: a necessary evil
23. Cold war (ii)
24. Old peat and neighbourhood squabbling
25. Die Zustandsgleichung
26. Huize ter Wetering
27. Monsieur Zéro Absolu
28. The quantum and zero-point energy
29. ‘Supra-conductivity’
30. A chocolate from Stockholm
31. World War: turning-point
32. Declining years
33. Successors
34. Duty, joy and harmony
Epilogue: the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory
Glossary
Illustration sources
Chronology
Sources and abbreviations/terms used in references to sources
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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