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

[ergospherical]

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?

 

[hutchphd]

There is that Newton fellow. James Gleick did a bio (not my favorite Gleick but I love most of his stuff).

 

[Frabjous]

Batchelor wrote a bio of Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521461219/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Frabjous]

The Maxwellians by Hunt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0801482348/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[marcusl]

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…)

 

[Frabjous]

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.