American and Dutch physicists reach new low temperature

Physicists compete in a race to the bottom with a finish line that can never be reached.

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June 10, 1933 | Vol. 23 | No. 635

American and Dutch physicists reach new low temperature

The greatest cold produced and measured by man has now been pushed to within a quarter of a degree of absolute zero, that unattainable heatless point where all motion of the molecules cease and where gas would exert no pressure whatever.