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
Robert C. Richardson
Born: 1937-06-26 in Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist
Biography
Robert Coleman Richardson was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included 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.