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Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
(7 Jan 1906 - 18 Sep 1980)
German-British medical physicist and author who installed the first helium liquifier at Oxford, and conducted important work prior to WW II on superconductivity.
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Science Quotes by Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn (1)
Dewar's rule in his laboratory was as absolute as that of a Pharaoh, and he showed deference to no one except the ghost of Faraday whom he met occasionally all night in the gallery behind the lecture room.
— Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
The Quest for Absolute Zero (1966).
