Nicholas Kurti (born 14.05.1908) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1956), and its vice-president in 1965-67. He was born in Budapest. He graduated from the Universities of Paris (1928) and Berlin (1931). In 1931-33 he worked at the Higher Technical School in Breslau. Since 1933 he has been at the University of Oxford (professor in 1967-75).
His research was in the field of low-temperature physics and its applications in engineering and biology, and of magnetism. Independently of C. Gorter and together with F. Simon he put forward (1935) the idea of nuclear cooling and developed this method. He reached (1956) temperatures of 2*10-5 K.
A member of a number of academies of sciences, in particular of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1970). The F. London Prize (1957) and the D. Hughes Medal (1969).