This short but revealing biography tells the story of Kurt Mendelssohn FRS, one of the founding figures in the field of cryogenics, from his beginnings in Berlin through his move to Oxford in the 1930s, and his groundbreaking work in low temperature and solid state physics. He set up the first helium liquefier in the United Kingdom, and did fundamental research that increased our understanding of superconductivity and superfluid helium.
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John Weisend is currently a Senior Scientist and Group Leader for Specialised Technical Services at The European Spallation Source. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he investigated engineering applications of He II. He has worked at the SSC Laboratory, the Centre D'Etudes Nucleaires Grenoble, the Deutsches Elecktronen-Synchrotron Laboratory (DESY), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), the National Science Foundation and Michigan State University
Dr. Weisend's research interests include He II and large scale accelerator cryogenics. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cryogenic Society of America (CSA). He has led the CSA Short Course Program since 2001. He is Chief Technical Editor of Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. In addition to co-authoring more than 60 technical papers, Dr. Weisend is the co-author (with N. Filina) of Cryogenic Two-Phase Flow and the editor of the Handbook of Cryogenic Engineering, Editor of Cryostat Design (Springer, 2016) and Cryogenic Safety (Springer, 2018).
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Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Foundations : Berlin 1906 1925
Chapter 2: University: Berlin 1925 1931
Chapter 3: Transitions: Breslau/Oxford 1931 -1933
Chapter 4: All Things Super: Oxford 1933 1939
Chapter 5: War and Controversy: Oxford 1940 1945
Chapter 6: Films and Other Studies: Oxford 1945 1980
Chapter 7: Connections: 1945 1980
Chapter 8: Travels: 1945 1980
Chapter 9: Writings: 1945 1980
Chapter 10: Pyramids
Epilogue
Bibliography
References
Appendix
1) List of Students2) List of Papers