Douglas Osheroff
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for his discovery of superfluidity in 3He. The discovery was done in 1971 while Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell.
Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he was a student of Richard Feynman. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1973.
He now teaches at Stanford University.
External links
- Nobel Archive 1996
- Stanford Physics Department - Osheroff
- Osheroff Learning of his Nobel Prize - Osheroff released this recording from his answering machine, which showed his initial annoyance with a 2:30 AM phone call.