Abstract
In 1967, the Soviet Union's Venera-4 space mission to Venus sent back the first tantalizing temperature measurements of the Venusian atmosphere; Veneras -5 and -6 were launched in January 1969. A few months later, a famous lowtemperature physicist whimsically said, "I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on within our souffles" [1]. The remark was made during a Friday evening demonstration given at the Royal Institution in London. Nicholas Kurti (1908-1998) had chosen as his subject: "The physicist in the kitchen."
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