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Robert Coleman Richardson was an American physicist who made significant contributions to the study of low-temperature physics and the properties of matter at extremely cold temperatures. His work helped advance our understanding of how materials behave near absolute zero, which has practical applications in fields like superconductivity and quantum physics.
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- 1937-06-26
- Died
- 2013-02-19
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Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) 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.
Richardson was born in Washington D.C. He went to high school at Washington-Lee in Arlington, Virginia. He later described Washington-Lee's biology and physics courses as "very old-fashioned" for the time. "The idea of 'advanced placement' had not yet been invented," he wrote in his Nobel Prize autobiography. He took his first calculus course when he was a sophomore in college.
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1937 births2013 deathsAmerican experimental physicistsAmerican Nobel laureatesCornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State PhysicsCornell University facultyDuke University alumniDuke University facultyMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNobel laureates in PhysicsOliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners