Nicholas Kurti
Nicholas Kurti · Science & Medicine
Physicist; low-temperature physics and nuclear cooling
1908, Budapest, Hungary — 1998, Oxford, England, UK
Hungary · United Kingdom
Nicholas Kurti is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; low-temperature physics and nuclear cooling
Kurti was a physicist at Oxford who pioneered low-temperature research, using nuclear adiabatic demagnetization to reach within a millionth of a degree of absolute zero. A gastronomy enthusiast, he also helped found the field of molecular gastronomy. A Hungarian Jew, he left the antisemitic climate of Hungary to study in Germany and then fled Nazism for Britain.
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Physicist; low-temperature physics and nuclear cooling
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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