Don Misener (A.D. Misener) (1911-1996) was a

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

. Along with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and John F. Allen, Misener discovered the

superfluid Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy. When stirred, a superfluid forms vortices that continue to rotate indefinitely. Superfluidity occurs in two ...

phase of matter in 1937. Misener was a graduate student at the

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in 1935. He joined Allen at

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in about 1937. Misener later returned to Canada to work at the

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* 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)

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