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Willem Keesom
Born	21 June 1876 (1876-06-21) Texel
Died	24 March 1956 (1956-03-25) (aged 79) Leiden
Nationality	Dutch
Known for	helium
Scientific career
Fields	physics
Doctoral advisor	Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Willem Hendrik Keesom (/ˈkeɪsoʊm/^[1][2]) (21 June 1876, Texel – 24 March 1956, Leiden) was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole-dipole interactions in 1921. Thus, dipole-dipole interactions are also known as Keesom interactions. He was previously a student of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who had discovered superconductivity (a feat for which Kamerlingh Onnes received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics).

He also discovered the lambda-point transition specific-heat maximum between Helium-I and Helium-2 in 1930 (Basic Superfluids p25/Tony Guenault).

In 1924 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[3]

• Timeline of low-temperature technology

• Albert van Helden, Willem Hendrik Keesom 1876 – 1956, In: K. van Berkel, A. van Helden and L. Palm ed., A History of Science in the Netherlands. Survey, Themes and Reference (Leiden: Brill, 1999) 498-500.
• Scientists of the Dutch School: Willem Hendrik Keesom @ Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• P.H. van Laer, Keesom, Wilhelmus Hendrikus (1876-1956), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.

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