AI overview
Douglas Osheroff is an American physicist who made important contributions to the study of how materials behave at extremely low temperatures. His work has advanced our understanding of fundamental physics and earned him recognition among scientists, though the specifics of his discoveries and their practical applications would require additional sources to fully explain.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Person
- Born
- 1945-08-01
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 34
- Total plays
- 41
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Douglas+Osheroff">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
Article
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University.
Life and work
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1945 births21st-century American physicistsAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Russian-Jewish descentAmerican people of Slovak descentCalifornia Institute of Technology alumniCornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State PhysicsCornell University alumniFellows of the American Physical SocietyJewish American physicistsLiving peopleMacArthur Fellows