| Authorised form of name | Onnes; Heike Kamerlingh (1853 - 1926) |
| Other forms of name | Heike |
| Other forms of surname | Kamerlingh Onnes |
| Dates | 1853 - 1926 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Place of birth | Groningen, Netherlands |
| Date of birth | 21 September 1853 |
| Place of death | Leyden, Netherlands |
| Date of death | 21/02/1926 |
| Research field | Physics |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1913 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 23/03/1916 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1912 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
AltName from DSB
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'The work of Thomas Andrews and James Thomson on the liquefaction of gases' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 143-159
J S Rowlinson, 'Gases and liquids. How fluids unmix: discoveries by the school of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes, by J L Sengers' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 255-256
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 1. Progress before 1940' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 317 - 322
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1927 vol 113 pp i-vi, plate, signed by F G D |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/34516797 |
| Royal Society code | NA452 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1916/05 | Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/928/2/126 | Letter from Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Natuurkundig Laboratorium, Leiden, to Charles Vernon Boys, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, London | 18 November 1893 |
| NLB/64/32 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Heike] Kamerlingh Onnes, FRS | 20 January 1923 |
| NLB/64/731 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Heike] Kamerlingh Onnes, Forgein Member of the Royal Society | 11 June 1923 |
| NLB/65/339 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Heike] Kamerlingh Onnes, FRS | 16 October 1923 |
| NLB/65/92 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann, FRS; circulated to all members of the Physics Committee | 26 July 1923 |
| NLB/65/341 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS | 16 October 1923 |
| NLB/69/416 | Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Madame Onnes | 25 March 1926 |
| NLB/69/794 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederick George] Donnan, C.B.E., FRS | 18 October 1926 |
| NLB/64/732 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society;[Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh | 11 June 1923 |
| NLB/65/16 | Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS | 13 July 1923 |
| RR/26/106 | Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese' by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Robert Abbott Hadfield and H R Woltjer | 22 March 1921 |
| MC/27/257 | Letter from A van der Goes, Netherlands Cheque d'afaires, 8 Grosvenor Gardens, to the [Royal Society] | 28 November 1912 |
| MC/27/262 | Letter from [Heike] Kamerlingh Onnes, Leiden, Huize ter Watering, Haagweg, to Sir [Joseph] Larmor, Secretary, [Royal Society] | 12 November 1912 |
| MC/31/135 | Letter from [Heike Kamerlingh] Onnes, Huize Ter Wetering, Haagweg, Leiden, to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, [Royal Society] | 25 February 1916 |
| MC/31/136 | Letter from [Heike Kamerlingh] Onnes, Huize Ter Wetering, Haagweg, Leiden, to [Joseph John] Thomson, President of the Royal Society of London | 11 May 1916 |