One hundred years ago in April, meanwhile, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a Dutch physicist, discovered that some materials are superconductors—as they are cooled towards absolute zero they allow electric charge to flow with no resistance.
Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, aphysicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.