Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870 in

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– 22 December 1955) Retrieved 11 September 2007. was a Belgian physicist. He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes's laboratory in

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from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923. From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the

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and from 1923 to 1940 at the

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. He was one of the participants of the fifth

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on Physics that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium.

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1870 births 1955 deaths Belgian physicists Academic staff of Ghent University {{Physicist-stub