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Abstracts
SATURDAY 13 AUGUST
Henry Hall Session
Chair: William Vinen
(28.9.1928 - 4.12.2015)
Henry Edgar Hall FRS was one of the leading low temperature physicists of his
generation in the United Kingdom. He contributed crucially to the experimental
verification of the existence and importance of quantized vortex lines in superfluid
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He and to an understanding of their dynamical behaviour. He designed and built
the first working dilution refrigerator in the UK. In doing so, he made major
contributions to our understanding of superfluidity in liquid
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He.
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