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THE National Research Council of Canada has recently made a gift of 2,000 cubic feet of helium gas to the Royal Society Mond Laboratory at Cambridge. This amount of gas will enable the Laboratory to recommence research on very low temperature problems and on a scale which will allow the full resources of the Laboratory to be employed. In the whole field of physics, the temperature region close to the absolute zero remains one of the most fruitful for investigation. The low-temperature problems which received most attention before the War were those of superconductivity, magnetic cooling and the properties of liquid helium itself. These are, however, only the more prominent aspects of a wider field of investigation. Many mechanical, electrical, magnetic and optical phenomena, which are either partially or completely obscured by thermal agitation at room temperature, stand out clearly and undisturbed in the quiet region from 5° absolute down to 0·01° absolute which is attainable with liquid helium.
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Helium for the Royal Society Mond Laboratory. Nature 155, 325 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155325c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155325c0