Also known as
  • Add other possible names for this topic
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Morris 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 superfluid in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. He is currently the... full article at wikipedia
Awards Won
year
award
award winner (e.g. a person or organization)
notes/description
  • 1996
  • for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the content on this page is typically distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "Robert Coleman Richardson" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License .
Created by Metaweb Oct 23, 2006
Last edited by mw_gender_bot Jun 25, 2008
View topic history »
Gallery add edit
There are no images for this topic yet.

Recent Discussions about Robert Coleman Richardson

There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?

Start the Discussion »