No I am not talking about Obama.
This is the story of Dewar and Kamerlingh Onnes race to liquify gases. The ultimate challenge was helium. Dewar gavce up after hydrogen as he found it difficult to get helium and had all along gone light on equipment whilst Onnes used a more industrial approach,. Onnes received the Nobel prize for doing this.
The unfortunate thing is that later superconductivity and superfluidity was found by Onnes. Had Dewar persisted he might have found superconductivity and got the prize anyway!
The ultimate acheivement detailed is the creation of an Bose Einstein condensate in 1995.
If you like science / physics this one is for you!
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