QFS 2016 Book of Abstracts

Abstracts

Russell Donnelly Session Chair: Gary Ihas

(16.4.1930 - 13.6.2015)

An internationally recognized authority in the field of low-temperature physics, Donnelly directed the Cryogenic Helium Turbulence Laboratory at the University of Oregon. Here Russ launched an intense period of research on superfluid flow and some of the exotic features of helium II, such as rotons and quantized vortex rings. He was a champion of outreach being the principal science consultant for a documentary ”Absolute Zero”.

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