Douglas Dean Osheroff was born on August 1,1945 and is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3.
10 Facts About Douglas Osheroff
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Douglas Osheroff earned his bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he attended lectures by Richard Feynman and did undergraduate research for Gerry Neugebauer.
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Douglas Osheroff joined the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University as a graduate student, doing research in low-temperature physics.
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Together with David Lee, the head of the laboratory, and Robert C Richardson, Osheroff used a Pomeranchuk cell to investigate the behaviour of He at temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero.
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Lee, Richardson and Douglas Osheroff were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this discovery.
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Douglas Osheroff then worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey for 15 years, continuing to research low-temperature phenomena in He.
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Douglas Osheroff's research is focused on phenomena that occur at extremely low temperatures.
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Douglas Osheroff was selected to serve on the Space Shuttle Columbia investigation panel, serving much the same role as Richard Feynman did on the Space Shuttle Challenger panel.
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Douglas Osheroff currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.
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Douglas Osheroff is left-handed, and he often blames his slight quirks and eccentricities on it.