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...liquefier would have solved those problems by allowing Harvard scientists to prepare liquid helium themselves and would have benefitted the research of a variety of groups in the Physics and Chemistry Departments as well as the School of Engineering and Applied Science...
...areas of research such as condensed matter and quantum physics, certain phenomena can only be realized and controlled at low temperatures, making liquid helium—one of the simplest means of cooling a specimen—a precious commodity...
...It’s really a lifeline,” said physics professor Amir Yacoby. “If you run out of liquid helium your experiment warms up and when this happens it could set you back months...
...Currently, researchers who use liquid helium must buy it from external suppliers, which has become problematic due to erratic suppliers as well as the element’s steadily rising costs, Yacoby said...
...fall largely on the shoulders of one man, does it have to be a guy in an ill-fitting suit who has a reputation for occasionally putting his foot in his mouth? The one who speaks in a disembodied patter while his nail-bitten fingers fiddle with his constant liquid sidekick, a can of Diet Coke? And then, just when you begin to ask yourself these questions, Summers starts speaking with an almost poetic clarity, in those perfectly formed sentences that have made him an in-house economist for three of the past five Presidents. "Any study of history reveals...