Don Misener (A.D. Misener) (1911-1996)
was a
physicist. Along with
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and
John F. Allen John Allen may refer to:
Academia
*John Allen (historian) (1771–1843), Scottish historian and political writer
* John Allen (bookseller) (1789–1829), English bookseller and antiquary
* John S. Allen (1907–1982), American university president ...
, Misener discovered the
superfluid phase of matter in 1937.
Misener was a graduate student at the
University of Toronto in 1935. He joined Allen at
Cambridge University in about 1937. Misener later returned to Canada to work at the
University of Western Ontario.
Journal references
* E. F. Burton, J. O. Wilhelm, and A. D. Misener, ''Trans. Roy. Soc. Can.'' 28(111) p. 65 (1934)
* J. F. Allen and A. D. Misener, Flow of Liquid Helium II, ''Nature'' 141(3558) p. 75 (8 Jan 1938)
* A. D. Misener, The Specific Heat of Superconducting Mercury, Indium and Thallium, ''
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences'', 174(957) pp. 262–272 (1940)
See also
*
Timeline of low-temperature technology
*Allan Griffi
A Brief History of Our Understanding of BEC: From Bose to BeliaevarXiv:cond-mat/9901123 p. 5
References
External links
Canadian physicists
University of Toronto alumni
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing
Presidents of the Canadian Association of Physicists
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