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Electrons are the carriers for electricity, but they are also carriers for thermal energy. This means thermal conductivity is increased when the carrier density…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

— Anita Loos

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

— Richard P. Feynman

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in…

— David Lee

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron,…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Finally I got to carbon, and as you all know, in the case of carbon the reaction works out beautifully. One goes through six…

— Hans Bethe

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

— Fred Hoyle

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

— David Lee

“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to…

— Alan J. Heeger

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred…

— Bill Bryson