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Harm Henrick Kamerlingh Onnes (15 feb 1893, Zoeterwoude
Zoeterwoude
Zoeterwoude is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers 21.91 km² . It had a population of 8,526 in 2004....

 - 20 May 1985, Leiden) was a Dutch painter, the nephew of physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques, and he explored how materials behaved when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquify helium...

. (Heike's father was also named Harm Kamerlingh Onnes.)

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