Samuel Collins (American physicist)
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Samuel Collins (born September 28, 1898 in Kentucky[1]) developed the first mass-produced helium liquifier, the Collins Helium Cryostat.
Powered by a two-piston expansion engine, his refrigerators provided the first reliable supplies of liquid helium in quantities of several hundred to several thousand liters. Among other uses, these refrigerators were used to liquify and transport helium and deuterium for the first hydrogen bomb explosion, Ivy Mike in 1952[2].
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- ^ ["http://web.mit.edu/hmtl/www/collins.html MIT website]. Retrieved on February 2008.
- ^ Rhodes, Richard, Dark Sun, Simon & Schuster, 1995, p 488-489
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