Damn Interesting has a piece on the race to produce the first liquid hydrogen over a century ago: http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/ http://ww

Damn Interesting has a piece on the race to produce the first liquid hydrogen over a century ago: http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/ http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/ From the article: "He did so with the full awareness that he was among the last of a disappearing breed—the “classical physicists” who had the luxury of simply banging on matter until it did interesting Newtonian things."