Kurt Mendelssohn
Kurt Mendelssohn · Science & Medicine
Physicist; low-temperature physics and superfluidity
1906, Berlin, Germany — 1980, Oxford, England
Germany · United Kingdom
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Kurt Mendelssohn was a German-British physicist, a pioneer of low-temperature physics who liquefied helium at Oxford and made key contributions to the study of superfluidity and superconductivity, including work on the 'Rollin film' and the thermodynamics of the superconducting state. Of Jewish descent, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and built the Clarendon Laboratory's cryogenics group at the University of Oxford. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; low-temperature physics and superfluidity
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