Robert Coleman Richardson
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Robert Coleman Richardson
American physicist (1937–
Richardson was educated at Virginia State University and at Duke University, North Carolina, where he obtained his PhD in 1966. He moved immediately to Cornell and was appointed professor of physics in 1975.
In the early 1970s work with Douglas Osheroff and David Lee revealed that, contrary to expectations, helium-3 became a superfluid at a temperature of 0.0027 degrees above absolute zero. Richardson shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for physics with Osheroff and Lee for his work in this field.
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Richardson, Robert Coleman, 1937-, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C. Ph.D. Duke Univ., 1966. Richardson has been a professor at Cornell since 1966. He was co-recipient with Douglas Osheroff and David Lee of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that a rare isotope of helium with only one neutron, known as helium-3, exhibits superfluidity at extremely low temperatures. Conducted in the early 1970s at Cornell, the research showed that helium-3 becomes superfluid at a temperature much lower than the normal helium isotope, helium-4, and that the key to the transition is the magnetic behavior of helium-3 rather than its hydrodynamics. The work was considered a breakthrough in low-temperature physics.
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Robert Coleman Richardson
| Robert Coleman Richardson | |
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| Born | June 26, 1937 |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Alma mater | Virginia Tech Duke University |
| Doctoral advisor | Horst Meyer |
| Known for | Discovering superfluidity in helium-3 |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1996) |
Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.)[1] is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David 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 superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.[2][3][4]
He is currently the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics Cornell University, although he no longer operates a laboratory. His past experimental work focused on using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to study the quantum properties of liquids and solids at extremely low temperatures.
Richardson 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 an Eagle Scout, and mentioned the scouting activities of his youth in the biography he submitted to the Nobel Foundation at the time of his award.[1]
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- ^ a b Biography on the Nobel Foundation website
- ^ Osheroff, DD; RC Richardson, DM Lee (1972). "Evidence for a New Phase of Solid He3". Physical Review Letters 28 (14): 885–888. Bibcode 1972PhRvL..28..885O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.885.
- ^ Osheroff, DD; WJ Gully, RC Richardson, DM Lee (1972). "New Magnetic Phenomena in Liquid He3 below 3mK". Physical Review Letters 29 (14): 920–923. Bibcode 1972PhRvL..29..920O. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.29.920.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996". The Nobel Prize in Physics. Nobel Foundation. 2007. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/index.html. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
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