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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (17) |
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| complete name: |
Robert Coleman Richardson |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1996 |
| together with: |
David Lee |
| together with: |
Douglas Osheroff |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 was awarded jointly to David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Robert |
| family name: |
Richardson |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| work location: |
Cornell University, 300 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States of America |
| description: |
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. 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. Richardson attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1965. At the time of his death, he was the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics at Cornell University, although he no longer operated a laboratory. From 1998 to 2007 he served as Cornell's vice provost for research, and from 2007 to 2009 was senior science adviser to the president and provost. His past experimental work focused on using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to study the quantum properties of liquids and solids at extremely low temperatures. Richardson was an Eagle Scout, and mentioned the scouting activities of his youth in the biography he submitted to the Nobel Foundation at the time of his award. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1996/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1937 |
| date death: |
2013 |
| usual name: |
Robert Richardson |
