Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Who achieved the ultra low temperature near absolute zero which led to the discovery of superconductivity?

  1. Isaac Asimov

  2. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  3. Edward Morley

  4. A Michelson
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Explanation

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes achieved ultra-low temperatures approaching absolute zero in 1908, discovering superconductivity in mercury in 1911. He was the first to liquefy helium and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913 for his work. Isaac Asimov was a science fiction writer, while Michelson and Morley were involved in ether experiments.

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