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It is a hundred years since Thomas Andrews delivered the Bakerian Lecture at the Royal Society. In it he described work on the critical point which formed a basis for the theoreticians who followed him.
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ROWLINSON, J. Thomas Andrews and the Critical Point. Nature 224, 541–543 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224541a0
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