Kamerlingh Onnes

[ kah-muhr-ling aw-nuhs ]

noun
  1. Hei·ke [hahy-kuh], /ˈhaɪ kə/, 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.

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British Dictionary definitions for Kamerlingh-Onnes

Kamerlingh-Onnes

/ (Dutch ˈkɑmərlɪŋˈonəs) /


noun
  1. Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913

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