"Superfluid phenomena in liquid helium-4 have fascinated both experimentalists and theoreticians since the discovery of superfluidity in 1938 simultaneously by Peter Kapitsa at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and by Jack Allen and Donald Misener at the Royal Society Laboratories in Cambridge, England. These phenomena include a vanishingly small viscosity, a very high heat conductivity (30 times greater than copper), and many other bizarre effects, such as the He fountain, film flow and creep, and quantized vortices (see the article by Russell Donnelly in Physics Today, July 1995, page 30)."
Superfluidity

January 1, 1970

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