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Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. [1]
Douglas Osheroff, American physicist who, along with David Lee and Robert Richardson, was the corecipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of superfluidity in the isotope helium-3.
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Biographical. Ethnically, I come from a mixed family. My father was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia shortly after the turn of the century, and my mother was the daughter of a Lutheran minister whose parents were from what is now Slovakia. Mostly, however, I grew up in a medical family.
Douglas D. Osheroff. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996. Born: 1 August 1945, Aberdeen, WA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”. Prize share: 1/3.
Professor Osheroff talks about his wild childhood and performing experiments at home, how he always wanted to be an explorer (4:15), the Nobel Prize and what it has meant to him (7:47), his time at Bell Labs (9:22), teaching (11:34), his work as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (13:25), and his thoughts about space flights (...
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Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist who, as a student under David Lee and Robert Richardson, first noticed signs of superfluidity in the supercooled isotope helium-3. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for “their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”.
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson.
