Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853–1926

Front Matter....Pages i-cxv
on the cryogenic laboratory at Leiden and on the production of very low temperatures....Pages 3-30
The importance of accurate measurements at very low temperatures....Pages 31-58
Further experiments with liquid helium. P. On the lowest temperature yet obtained....Pages 59-88
Théorie Générale De L’état Fluide....Pages 89-124
Remarks on the liquefaction of hydrogen, on thermodynamical similarity and on the use of vacuum vessels....Pages 125-145
Expression of the equation of state of gases and liquids by means of series.”....Pages 146-163
“The liquefaction of helium.”....Pages 164-187
“ Further experiments with liquid helium . E. A helium-cryostat. Remarks on the preceding communications .”....Pages 188-194
Further experiments with liquid helium....Pages 195-200
“Further experiments with liquid helium.”....Pages 201-220
Further experiments with liquid helium....Pages 221-226
 Further experiments with liquid helium . BB. Preliminary determinations of the specific heat of liquid helium ....Pages 227-235
On phosphorescence at very low temperatures....Pages 236-251
 Further experiments with liquid helium . B. On the change in the resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures, etc . III. The resistance of platinum at helium temperatures ....Pages 252-260
 Further experiments with liquid helium . C. On the change of electric resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures etc . IV. The resistance of pure mercury at helium temperatures ....Pages 261-263
 Further Experiments with Liquid Helium . D. On the Change of the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals at very low Temperatures, etc. V. The Disappearance of the resistance of mercury ....Pages 264-266
 Further experiments with Liquid Helium . G. On the Electrical Resistance of Pure Metals, etc . VI. On the Sudden Change in the Rate at which the Resistance of Mercury Disappears .....Pages 267-272
 Further experiments with liquid helium . H. On the electrical resistance of pure metals etc . VII. The potential difference necessary for the electric current through mercury below 4°.19 K.....Pages 273-314
 Further Experiments with liquid helium. H. On the electrical resistance etc. (continued) . VIII. The sudden disappearance of the ordinary resistance of tin, and the super-conductive state of lead ....Pages 315-332
 Further Experiments with Liquid Helium. I. The Hall - effect, and the magnetic change in resistance at low temperatures . IX. The appearance of galvanic resistance in supra-conductors which are brought into a magnetic field, at a threshold value of the field ....Pages 333-339
Further experiments with liquid helium. J. The imitation of an Ampère molecular current or of a permanent magnet by means of a supra-conductor.....Pages 340-355
Further experiments with liquid helium. L. The persistence of currents without electromotive force in supra-conducting circuits....Pages 356-362
Further experiments with liquid helium, AA. The disturbance of supra-conductivity by magnetic fields and currents. The hypothesis of Silsbee....Pages 363-387
Researches on magnetization at very low temperatures....Pages 388-421
“Researches on the magnetization of liquid and solid oxygen”....Pages 422-463
 Researches on Magnetism . III. On Para- and Dia-magnetism at very low temperatures ....Pages 464-471
 Magnetic Investigations . XIII. The susceptibility of liquid mixtures of oxygen and nitrogen, and the influence of the mutual distance of the molecules upon paramagnetism ....Pages 472-489
Back Matter....Pages 491-575