John F. Allen (physicist)

John F. Allen
Born
John Frank Allen

May 5, 1908
DiedApril 22, 2001 (2001-04-23) (aged 92)
NationalityCanada, England
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba
University of Toronto
Known forSuperfluid phase of matter
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Doctoral advisorJohn McLennan

John Frank Allen, FRS[1] FRSE (May 5, 1908 – April 22, 2001) was a Canadian physicist. At the same time as Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa in Moscow, Don Misener and Allen independently discovered the superfluid phase of matter in 1937 using liquid helium in the Royal Society Mond Laboratory in Cambridge, England.[2]

  1. ^ Armitage, Jonathan G. M.; Longair, Malcolm S. (2023). "John Frank Allen. 6 May 1908—22 April 2001". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 75: 7–27. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0021.
  2. ^ Donnelly, Russell J. (July 2002). "Obituary: John Frank Allen". Physics Today. 55 (7): 76–77. Bibcode:2002PhT....55g..76D. doi:10.1063/1.1506759.

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