Recent Articles



































Douglas D. Osheroff



         


Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for his discovery of superfluidity in 3He. The discovery was done in 1971 while Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell.

Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he was a student of Richard Feynmann. He received a PhD from Cornell University in 1973.

He now teaches at Stanford University.

[Top]




  View Live Article   This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License