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THE study of the properties of liquid helium has been very fruitful in revealing unexpected phenomena—super-conductivity, abnormally high thermal conductivity, super-fluidity and others. Of these, super-fluidity and some associated effects are comparatively new and were being investigated in several laboratories just before the War. Prof. P. Kapitza, who is one of the chief workers in this branch of low-temperature physics, and who introduced the term 'super-fluid', has recently published an article1 in which he surveys his work on this subject and discusses possible explanations of the flow phenomena.
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Kapitza, P., Nauka i Zhizn (Science and Life), No. 3, 13 (1944).
Kapitza, P., Nature, 141, 74 (1938).
Tisza, L., Nature, 141, 913 (1938).
Landau, L., Zhur. Eksper. Teoret. Fiziki, 11, No. 1 (1941); Phys. Rev., 60, 356 (1941).
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SMITH, G. The Super-Fluidity of Liquid Helium II. Nature 155, 598–600 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155598a0
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