The Kamerlingh Onnes Award is in recognition of special merits of scientists active in the field of

refrigeration The term refrigeration refers to the process of removing heat from an enclosed space or substance for the purpose of lowering the temperature.International Dictionary of Refrigeration, http://dictionary.iifiir.org/search.phpASHRAE Terminology, ht ...

technology,

cryogenics In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures. The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of “cryogenics” and “cr ...

and more generally low-temperature science and technology. It was founded in 1948 by the Royal Dutch Association of Refrigeration (Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Koude, KNVvK) The name of the award is intended to keep the memory of

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium f ...

alive. The award is assigned typically every four years and the winners get a golden medal and a certificate.

List of recipients

*1950 Prof. F. Simon, Oxford, England, ''Very low temperatures, liquid hydrogen and helium'' *1955 Prof. , Karlsruhe, Germany, ''Refrigeration technology in a broad sense'' *1958 Prof. S.C. Collins, M.I.T., USA, ''Low temperatures, especially with regard to equipment for the production of liquid helium'' *1958

Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (English translation: ''Philips Physics Laboratory'') or NatLab was the Dutch section of the Philips research department, which did research for the product divisions of that company. Originally located in the ...

, Eindhoven, Netherlands, ''Development of cryogenerator'' *1963 Dr. F. Kidd and Dr. C. West, Cambridge, England, ''Research storage conditions of fruit'' *1968 Prof. P.L. Kapitza, Moscov, Russia, ''Low temperatures; scientifically and technologically'' *1973 Ms. Dr.

Audrey Smith Audrey Ursula Smith (21 May 1915 – 3 June 1981) was a British cryobiologist, who discovered the use of glycerol to protect human red blood cells during freezing. Early life and education Audrey Smith was born in India on 21 May 1915, and ...

, Stanmore, England, ''Introduction of cryoprotectants; cryobiology'' *1979 Dr. J.E. Kunzler, Bell Labs., USA, ''Superconductivity'' *1983 Prof. L. Váhl, Delft, The Netherlands, ''Refrigeration technology in the broad sense'' *1988 Ir. T.A. van Hiele, Wageningen, Netherlands, ''Application of refrigeration technology on agricultural and horticultural products'' *1989 Dr. H.T. Meryman, American Red Cross, USA, ''Preservation of blood, tissues and organs'' *1995 Prof. R. Cohen, Purdue University, USA, ''Compressor technology and international knowledge transfer'' *1995 Refrigerator Research group at the Massey University, New Zealand, under Prof. A.C. Cleland, ''Food refrigeration processes and knowledge transfer'' *2000 Prof. G. Frossati, Kamerlingh Onnes Lab., Netherlands, ''Development of cryogenic equipment, in particular as regards

dilution refrigerator A 3He/4He dilution refrigerator is a cryogenics, cryogenic device that provides continuous cooling to temperatures as low as 2 Kelvin, mK, with no moving parts in the low-temperature region. The cooling power is provided by the heat o ...

s'' *2008 Prof. H.C. Kruse, Hannover, Germany, ''Contributed to technological progress, education and knowledge transfer and did meritorious work for cold and

heat pump A heat pump is a device that can heat a building (or part of a building) by transferring thermal energy from the outside using a refrigeration cycle. Many heat pumps can also operate in the opposite direction, cooling the building by removing h ...

associations'' *2008 Prof. A.T.A.M. de Waele, Eindhoven, Netherlands, '' Optimization of

pulse tube refrigerator The pulse tube refrigerator (PTR) or pulse tube cryocooler is a developing technology that emerged largely in the early 1980s with a series of other innovations in the broader field of thermoacoustics. In contrast with other cryocoolers (e.g. Sti ...

s for temperatures below 4 K'' *2012 Dr. P. Lebrun, CERN, Switzerland, ''For his groundbreaking contributions to the field of cryogenic science and technology, especially making the

Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundred ...

possible'' *2022 Pengcheng Dai

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