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Nature 396, 632 (17 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/25257
Obituary: Nicholas Kurti (1908-98)
W. Graham Richards1
One of the distinctions that pleased Nicholas Kurti most was appearing in the Guinness Book of Records as the creator of the then world-record low temperature, about a hundred-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero. That combination of scientific skill with a sense of fun epitomized the man.
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