The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
Awarded on: 1996-10-09
"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
Affiliations:
- Cornell University – Ithaca, NY, USA
David M. Lee
Born: 1931-01-20 in Rye, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: Physicist and Nobel Prize winner from the United States
Biography
David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University.