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In their book La guerre du froid, Jean Matricon and Georges Way sand describe the first liquefaction of helium in 1908, including the moment of recognition after a bystander suggested that the cryostat be illuminated from below. They go on to state that no similar firsthand account exists for the discovery of superconductivity three years later, which also took place in Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's laboratory at Leiden University, In their words, “Although we have an account full of life and spirit of the liquefaction of helium, the birth of superconductivity has come down to us only as a cold scientific report of the measurement.”

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DOI:10.1063/1.881517

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年代:1996

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Iwell remember my arrival at Caltech on a sunny October morning in 1970. Fresh from the University of Oxford where even graduate students at that time wore ties and shirts, I was unsure what to wear for my first meeting with Murray Gell‐Mann. I gambled, wrongly, on a suit, and arrived at the office of the theory group secretary, Julie Curcio, feeling more and more overdressed and as if I had a large label dangling from my collar saying “New PhD from Oxford.” I had seen Gell‐Mann once before in England but was unsure if the bearded individual dressed in an open‐necked shirt and sitting in Julie's office was indeed the eminent professor, A moment after I had introduced myself, my doubts were dispelled by the man putting out his hand and saying “Hi, I'm Murray.” This episode illustrates only a small part of the healthy culture shock I experienced in California. Six years in Oxford had left me used to calling my professor “Professor Dalitz, sir.” At that time, I would certainly not have dared to address Richard Dalitz as “Dick.”

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DOI:10.1063/1.881518

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DOI:10.1063/1.2807760

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DOI:10.1063/1.2807761

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DOI:10.1063/1.2807763

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DOI:10.1063/1.2807771

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