List of Famous people with last name Keesom

Willem Hendrik Keesom

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Keesom
First Name Willem
Last Name Keesom
Born on June 21, 1876
Died on March 24, 1956 (aged 79)

Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions in 1921. Thus, dipole–dipole interactions are also known as Keesom interactions. He was previously a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had discovered superconductivity.

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