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    Douglas Osheroff

    Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an


    American physicist known for his work in Douglas Osheroff
    experimental condensed matter physics, in particular
    for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For
    his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in
    Physics along with David Lee and Robert C.
    Richardson.[1] Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson
    and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at
    Stanford University.

    Life and work


    Osheroff was born in Aberdeen, Washington. His
    father, William Osheroff, was the son of Jewish
    immigrants who left Russia. His mother, Bessie Anne Osheroff in 2011
    (Ondov), a nurse, was the daughter of Slovak Born Douglas Dean Osheroff
    immigrants (her own father was a Lutheran minister)[2] August 1, 1945
    from the Felvidék, Upper Hungary, Kingdom of Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.
    Hungary. Osheroff was confirmed in the Lutheran
    Alma mater California Institute of
    Church but he was given the chance to choose and
    Technology (B.S.), Cornell
    decided not to attend any longer. He has stated "In
    University (Ph.D.)
    some sense it seemed that lying in church is the worst
    place to lie. I guess at some emotional level I accept Known for Discovering superfluidity in
    the idea of God, but I don't know how God would Helium-3

    manifest itself."[3] Spouse Phyllis Liu ​(m. 1970)​


    Awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)
    Osheroff earned his bachelor's degree in 1967 from Simon Memorial Prize (1976)
    Caltech, where he attended lectures by Richard Buckley Prize (1981)
    Feynman and did undergraduate research for Gerry MacArthur Fellowship Program
    Neugebauer. (1981)

    Osheroff joined the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid Scientific career


    State Physics at Cornell University as a graduate Fields Experimental Physics,
    student, doing research in low-temperature physics. Condensed Matter Physics
    Together with David Lee, the head of the laboratory, Institutions Stanford University
    and Robert C. Richardson, Osheroff used a Bell Labs
    Pomeranchuk cell to investigate the behaviour of 3He Doctoral David Lee
    at temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of
    advisor
    absolute zero. They discovered unexpected effects in
    their measurements, which they eventually explained as phase transitions to a superfluid phase of
    3He.[4][5] Lee, Richardson and Osheroff were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this

    discovery.

    Osheroff received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1973. He then worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill,
    New Jersey for 15 years, continuing to research low-temperature phenomena in 3He. In 1987 he moved to
    the Departments of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University, where he also served as
    department chair from 1993 to 1996. His research is focused on phenomena that occur at extremely low
    temperatures.

    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.

    He currently serves on the board of advisors of Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization
    focused on promoting sound science in American government.

    Osheroff is left-handed, and he often blames his slight quirks and


    eccentricities on it. He is also an avid photographer and introduces
    students at Stanford to medium-format film photography in a
    freshman seminar titled "Technical Aspects of Photography." In
    addition, he has taught the Stanford introductory physics course on
    electricity and magnetism on multiple occasions, most recently in
    Spring 2008, as well as undergraduate labs on low temperature
    physics.

    Among his physics outreach activities, Osheroff participated in the


    science festivals for middle and high school students, is an official
    guest of honor at the International Young Physicists' Tournament
    2013.[6][7]

    Osheroff photographing during a trip He married a biochemist, Phyllis Liu-Osheroff, in 1970.


    to Big Sur with his students
    Osheroff is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize
    in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush
    in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008
    Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of
    Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and
    Technology.[8]

    Awards and honors


    Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)
    Simon Memorial Prize (1976)
    Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981)
    MacArthur Fellowship Program (1981)[9]
    Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1997)[10]

    See also

    Biography portal

    Timeline of low-temperature technology


    List of Jewish Nobel laureates

    References
    1. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996" (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/199
    6/index.html). Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
    2. Biography on the Nobel Foundation website (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laur
    eates/1996/osheroff-autobio.html)
    3. Hargittai. 2006. Candid Science VI: More Conversations with Famous Scientists, Imperial
    College Press, p. 726
    4. Osheroff, DD; RC Richardson; DM Lee (1972-04-03). "Evidence for a New Phase of Solid
    He3" (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.28.885). Physical Review Letters. 28 (14).
    American Physical Society: 885–888. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..28..885O (https://ui.adsabs.harv
    ard.edu/abs/1972PhRvL..28..885O). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.885 (https://doi.org/10.11
    03%2FPhysRevLett.28.885).
    5. Osheroff, DD; WJ Gully; RC Richardson; DM Lee (1972-10-02). "New Magnetic Phenomena
    in Liquid He3 below 3mK". Physical Review Letters. 29 (14). American Physical Society:
    920–923. Bibcode:1972PhRvL..29..920O (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972PhRvL..2
    9..920O). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.29.920 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.29.92
    0).
    6. "Douglas Osheroff at the IYPT 2013" (https://twitter.com/iypt/status/314920472485695488).
    IYPT. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
    7. "Professor Douglas Osheroff: Invited Nobel laureate" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160312
    081858/http://iypt.tw/iypt/index.php/iypt-2013/invited-nobel-laureate.html). iypt.tw. Archived
    from the original (http://iypt.tw/iypt/index.php/iypt-2013/invited-nobel-laureate.html) on 2016-
    03-12. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
    8. "A Letter from America's Physics Nobel Laureates" (https://fire.pppl.gov/nobel_bush_fy08_0
    50808.pdf) (PDF).
    9. "Douglas D. Osheroff" (https://www.macfound.org/fellows/86/). www.macfound.org.
    MacArthur Foundation.
    10. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement" (https://achievement.or
    g/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#science-exploration). www.achievement.org. American
    Academy of Achievement.

    External links
    Stanford Physics Department - Osheroff (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/facult
    y/osheroff_douglas.html) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20120204040306/http://ww
    w.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/osheroff_douglas.html) 2012-02-04 at the
    Wayback Machine
    Douglas D. Osheroff (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/150) on Nobelprize.org including
    the Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 Superfluidity in 3He: Discovery and Understandning
    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 2.30am phone call.
    Freeview video interview with Douglas Osheroff by the Vega Science Trust (http://www.veg
    a.org.uk/video/programme/34)

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