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Born September 21, 1853 • Groningen • Netherlands
Died February 21, 1926 (aged 72) • Leiden • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1913)
Subjects Of Study condensation • helium • low-temperature phenomenon • superconductivity

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