Robert Coleman Richardson
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| Born | 26 June 1937 |
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| Residence |  United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Physics |
| Institution | Duke Cornell |
| Alma mater | Virginia Tech Duke |
| Known for | dicovering superfluidity in helium-3 |
| Notable prizes |  Nobel Prize in Physics (1996) |
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist.
He 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.
He is currently the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Research at Cornell University, although he no longer operates a laboratory. His past experimental work focused on the study of physical phenomena at very low temperatures. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Morris Lee and Douglas Osheroff for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
Richardson is an Eagle Scout. There are four known eagle scouts among the Nobel Prize laureates: Richardson and Frederick Reines for physics, and Peter Agre and Dudley R. Herschbach for chemistry.
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[edit] External links
- Cornell webpage
- 1996 Nobel Physics winners
- Nobel autobiography
- Freeview video Interview with Robert Richardson by the Vega Science Trust
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