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Period: to
Cold
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle from Ireland used a barrel of water to prove that water stays the same weight when frozen but the particles move further apart (expansion) -
Guillaume Amontons
Worked Alone, First to discuss a limit to cold (absolute zero). Worked wiht mercury pressure when air was cooler. -
Antoine Lavoiser
Worked with his wife and used a calorimitor to calculate the amount of caloric something produced. Beleived Cold was absence of caloric. Calorimiter = warm something in middle of giant tub, middle layer, outer layor has ice or snow. How ever much water melted is amount of caloric produced. -
count Rumford
Used a cannon borrer to prove Lavoiser wrong. worked with cannon borring assistants. Used water on one end boiled when cannon borrer heated up. -
Michael Faraday
English, worked with Humphry Davy, worked with Chloine Hydrate and produced cold. -
Sadi Carnot
Created heat cycle of steam engine creating a thermodynamic cycle theory. -
James Joule
English, worked with brewery, conected mechanical devices to heat. -
William Tomson
Confirmed theory of absolute zero, created tempurature scale that reached absolute zero, and continued Sadi's research on heat cycle. -
James Dewar
Scottish, worked with a lab, liquified helium, and raced with Ones to liquify hydrogen. -
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch, worked with a lab,tried to collaborate with Dewar. Used apparatus where a liquified gass would become the coolant for the next gas, eventually liquifying helium.
Discovered superconductivity at extremly low level. -
Eric Cornell & Carl Wieman
Created a Bose Einstein Condensate using Rubidium. Worked together in Boulder. Used magnetic traps and lazers to dropp the temp low enough to create the condensate. -
Wolfgang Ketterle
Created a bose Einstein condensate with his lab using sodium. Used lazer and magnetic traps. -
Daniel Kleppner
Last in the race to create a bose einstein condensate.
