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Jun 21, 1876 Texel, North Holland, Netherlands Died on 24 Mar 1956 (aged 79)
Dutch physicist
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About Willem Hendrik Keesom
- Willem Hendrik Keesom () (21 June 1876, Texel – 24 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-2 in 1930 (Basic Superfluids p25/Tony Guenault). 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.
