Douglas Osheroff

Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist and university teacher born in Aberdeen on August 1, 1945. He holds citizenship in the United States and has worked in the fields of physics and cryophysics. Osheroff was educated at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, where his doctoral advisor was David Lee. He has been employed by Bell Labs and Stanford University.

Osheroff has received several honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, and the Simon Memorial Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. His work has been influenced by Richard Feynman.