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NEW branches of scientific research have developed more rapidly in the course of the last quarter of a century than the investigation of the properties of matter at low temperatures. Twenty-five years ago such problems seemed of comparatively slight fundamental interest. One knew, of course, that the electrical conductivity of metals increased with falling temperature. Dewar had shown that the specific heats of solids diminished somewhat. But no striking new phenomena were expected, and no exciting theoretical developments appeared likely to arise from research in these regions. Low-temperature work had gone out of fashion. In Leyden alone, in the magnificently equipped laboratory of Kamerlingh Onnes, a series of elaborate and most accurate measurements of all sorts of properties of a series of substances attested that interest in this branch of knowledge was not extinct.
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LINDEMANN, F. Low Temperature Research: Methods and Results. Nature 135, 693–695 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135693a0
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