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Don Misener (A.D. Misener) was a physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. Along with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and John F. Allen, Misener discovered the superfluid
Superfluid

Superfluidity is a phase or description of heat capacity in which unusual effects are observed when liquids, typically of helium-4 or helium-3, overcome friction by surface interaction when at a stage at which the liquid's viscosity becomes zero....
 phase of matter
Phase (matter)

In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of space , throughout which all physical properties of a material are essentially uniform. Examples of physical properties include density, refractive index, and chemical composition....
 in 1937.

Misener was a graduate student at the University of Toronto in 1935. He joined J.F. Allen at Cambridge in about 1937. Misener later returned to Canada to work at the University of Western Ontario.








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Don Misener (A.D. Misener) was a physicist
Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ....
. Along with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and John F. Allen, Misener discovered the superfluid
Superfluid

Superfluidity is a phase or description of heat capacity in which unusual effects are observed when liquids, typically of helium-4 or helium-3, overcome friction by surface interaction when at a stage at which the liquid's viscosity becomes zero....
 phase of matter
Phase (matter)

In the physical sciences, a phase is a region of space , throughout which all physical properties of a material are essentially uniform. Examples of physical properties include density, refractive index, and chemical composition....
 in 1937.

Misener was a graduate student at the University of Toronto in 1935. He joined J.F. Allen at Cambridge in about 1937. Misener later returned to Canada to work at the University of Western Ontario.

Journal references

  • E. F. Burton, J. O. Wilhelm, and A. D. Misener, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. 28, 111, 65 (1934)
  • J. F. Allen and A. D. Misener, Nature 141, 75 (1937)
  • The Specific Heat of Superconducting Mercury, Indium and Thallium, A. D. Misener, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 174, No. 957 pp. 262-272 (1940)


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