SIMON SCHAFFER: Kamerlingh Onnes was younger than Dewar and, to a certain extent, looked up to the Scotsman as his senior. Dewar didn't have the same, if you'll pardon the expression , "warm" feelings towards his rival in the race for cold.
NARRATOR: Dewar recognized that Kamerlingh Onnes had a new radical approach to science and was planning an industrial-scale lab