Robert Coleman Richardson
Robert Coleman Richardson | |
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| Born | June 26, 1937 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Virginia Tech Duke University |
| Known for | Discovering superfluidity in helium-3 |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1996) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Horst Meyer |
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.)[1] is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.[2][3][4]
He is currently the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics Cornell University, although he no longer operates a laboratory. His past experimental work focused on using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to study the quantum properties of liquids and solids at extremely low temperatures.
Richardson attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1965.
He is an Eagle Scout, and mentioned the scouting activities of his youth in the biography he submitted to the Nobel Foundation at the time of his award.[1]
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References
- ^ a b Biography on the Nobel Foundation website
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Osheroff, DD (1972). "Evidence for a New Phase of Solid He3". Physical Review Letters. 28 (14): 885–888. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..28..885O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.885.
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Osheroff, DD (1972). "New Magnetic Phenomena in Liquid He3 below 3mK". Physical Review Letters. 29 (14): 920–923. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..29..920O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.29.920.
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