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superconductivity superfluidity adiabatic demagnetization cryostat supercooling adiabatic expansion adiabatic nuclear demagnetization strain point glass transformation range softening point thermometer temperature inversion lapse rate absolute zero wind chill temperature–humidity index wet-bulb temperature dew point

Key People

Lev Davidovich Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau

Russian physicist

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Soviet physicist

Kamerlingh Onnes

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Dutch physicist

British chemist and physicist James Dewar

Sir James Dewar

British scientist

William Francis Giauque

American chemist

Willem Hendrik Keesom

Dutch physicist

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