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.

External links

• Nobel Archive 1996 (http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1996/index.html)
• Stanford Physics Department - Osheroff (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/osheroff_douglas.html)
• Osheroff Learning of his Nobel Prize (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/october3/osheroff_audio-103.html) - Osheroff released this recording from his answering machine, which showed his initial annoyance with a 2:30 AM phone call.

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