  Recent years have witnessed many exciting breakthroughs in neutrino physics.
The detection of neutrino oscillations has proved that neutrinos are massive
particles but the assessment of their absolute mass scale is still an
outstanding challenge in today particle physics and cosmology. Since low
temperature detectors were first proposed for neutrino physics experiments in
1984, there have been tremendous technical progresses: today this technique
offers the high energy resolution and scalability required to perform
competitive experiments challenging the lowest electron neutrino masses. This
paper reviews the thirty-year effort aimed at realizing a calorimetric
measurements with sub-eV neutrino mass sensitivity using low temperature
detectors.
