Douglas Osheroff

Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist and university teacher born in Aberdeen in 1945. He has worked at Bell Labs and Stanford University. His academic background includes education at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University. He studied under doctoral advisor David Lee and was influenced by Richard Feynman. His professional interests focus on physics and cryophysics.

Osheroff has received several awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, 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. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates, Nobel Physics, American Academy Arts Sciences, and Macarthur Fellows collections. He speaks English and follows Lutheranism.