Who were the British physicists in the race for absolute zero?

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I need some gentle bedtime reading...
where can I find some stories about various notable physicists who grew up or were based in the uk?
 
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There is that Newton fellow. James Gleick did a bio (not my favorite Gleick but I love most of his stuff).
 
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Check out Mendelssohn, The Quest for Absolute Zero. It’s a well written recount of the race between James Dewar and Kammerlingh Onnes to get to the lowest temperatures. (One of them was British…)
 
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marcusl said:
Check out Mendelssohn, The Quest for Absolute Zero. It’s a well written recount of the race between James Dewar and Kammerlingh Onnes to get to the lowest temperatures. (One of them was British…)
Great book.
 
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