Samuel Collins (physicist)
Samuel Cornette Collins was an American physicist. He developed the first mass-produced helium liquefier, Collins Helium Cryostat, acquiring the title "Father of Practical Helium Liquefiers."
Collin's refrigerators, powered by a two-piston expansion engine, 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 liquefy and transport helium and deuterium for the first hydrogen bomb explosion, Ivy Mike in 1952.
He was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal in 1951 and the Rumford Prize in 1965.
