Born: 21-Sep-1853
Birthplace: Groningen, Netherlands
Died: 21-Feb-1926
Location of death: Leiden, Netherlands
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Discovered superconductivity

Father: Harm Kamerlingh Onnes (owned a brickworks)
Mother: Anna Gerdina Coers
Wife: Maria Adriana Wilhelmina Elisabeth Bijleveld (m. 1887, one son)
Son: Albert (civil servant)

    High School: Hoogere Burgerschool, Groningen
    University: Heidelberg University (studied 1871-73)
    University: PhD, University of Groningen (1879)
    Teacher: Polytechnic School, Delft (1878-82)
    Professor: Experimental Physics, University of Leiden (1882-1923)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1913
    Matteucci Medal 1910
    Rumford Medal 1912

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