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Don Misener

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Don Misener (A.D. Misener) was a physicist. Along with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and John F. Allen, Misener discovered the superfluid phase of matter in 1937.

Misener was a graduate student at the University of Toronto in 1935. He joined J.F. Allen at Cambridge in about 1937. Misener later returned to Canada to work at the University of Western Ontario.

Journal references

  • E. F. Burton, J. O. Wilhelm, and A. D. Misener, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. 28, 111, 65 (1934)
  • J. F. Allen and A. D. Misener, Nature 141, 75 (1937)
  • The Specific Heat of Superconducting Mercury, Indium and Thallium, A. D. Misener, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 174, No. 957 pp. 262-272 (1940)