QFS 2016 Book of Abstracts

Abstracts

FRIDAY 12 AUGUST

Robert Richardson Session Chair: George Pickett

(26.6.1937-19.2.2013)

Robert Coleman Richardson was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee and Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of superfluid helium-3 in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.

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