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Kurt Mendelssohn played a very important role in creating the infrastructure that still connects cryogenic engineering research around the world. This chapter describes his role in founding the journal Cryogenics, the International Cryogenic Engineering Conference and the International Cryogenic Monograph Series. It also discusses his interest in the popularization science.
“The increasing importance of this field, particularly in view of the missile development and low temperature electronics of all kinds as well as the progress in the main field of liquefaction and separation seem to justify fully such a journal”
K. Mendelssohn to J. B. Gardner in 1959 regarding the founding of Cryogenics
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This journal was started in 1969 by Plenum Publishing with John Daunt, a former student of Mendelssohn’s (see Chap. 6), as its editor. Kurt Mendelssohn was on the original editorial board.
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Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen containing one proton and one neutron rather than the single proton found in “regular” hydrogen.
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K. Mendelssohn, “Cryogenics, The Present and the Future”, Proceedings first International Cryogenic Engineering Conference (1967).
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Weisend, J.G., Meaden, G.T. (2021). Connections: 1945–1980. In: Going for Cold. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61199-6_7
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