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    • Portrait photo of Dutch scientist Heike Kammerlingh Onnes
    Rights: Public domain Published 9 April 2010 Size: 88 KB Referencing Hub media

    Dutch scientist Heike Kammerlingh Onnes was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the properties of matter at low temperatures. He discovered superconductivity.

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      Superconductivity

      Superconductors are materials that lose all resistance to electric current when cooled to a certain temperature. This temperature depends on the structure and composition of the material. The ...

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