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, Atkins, Kenneth Robert, 1920-1995. Liquid helium. Cambridge : At the University Press, 1959, x, 312pp., dust-jacket chipped around edges, very good red cloth, previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper. Cambridge monographs on physics. Around 1950 Atkins was working at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory on problems of the flow of helium II film and testing the theories of Tisza, Landau, and Mendelssohn from the early 1940s. C. T. Lane of Yale called his research "first rate and a pleasure to read" (1957). -- Atkins: BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1942, MA 1945, Ph.D. in physics 1948; taught in Cambridge, then Toronto 1951-54, at the University of Pennsylvania from 1954, specializing in radar research, low temperature physics, solid state physics. A note in the Condon papers finding aid notes year of death as 1995. Around 1950 Atkins was working at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory on problems of the flow of helium II film and testing the theories of Tisza, Landau, and Mendelssohn from the early 1940s. C. T. Lane of Yale called his research "first rate and a pleasure to read" (1957).…