The #Superconductor World – the 1911 Discovery

  • 1911 – superconductivity discovered –  in solid mercury – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
  • Onnes + Cornelis Dorsman + Gerrit Jan Flim + Gilles Holst – Netherlands
  • Solid mercury gets superconductivity when cooled to temperature of liquid helium
  • Practically zero resistance when solid mercury’s temperature was lowered to 3 kelvins (-270.15 °C)
  • Heike Kamerlingh Onnes got 1913 Physics Nobel Prize for it

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