John F. Allen (physicist)
John Frank Allen, FRS 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.
John F. Allen | |
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| Born | John Frank Allen May 5, 1908 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Died | April 22, 2001 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Canada, England |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba University of Toronto |
| Known for | Superfluid phase of matter |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of St Andrews |
| Doctoral advisor | John McLennan |
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