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Laszlo Tisza

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Laszlo Tisza · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; two-fluid model of superfluid helium

When

1907, Budapest, Hungary — 2009, Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Where

Hungary · Soviet Union · France · United States

Biography

Laszlo Tisza is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; two-fluid model of superfluid helium

How & why

Laszlo Tisza was a physicist who proposed the two-fluid model of superfluid helium, a foundational idea in low-temperature physics, and later worked on thermodynamics at MIT. A Hungarian Jew, he studied and worked across Europe before settling in the United States and teaching at MIT for decades.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

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Physicist; two-fluid model of superfluid helium

1907

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics