Robert Coleman Richardson Quotes


I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.


Citations

Richardson, Robert C. "Robert C. Richardson - Biographical." Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1996, edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, 1997.

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Robert Coleman Richardson
Robert Coleman Richardson
  • Born: June 26, 1937
  • Died: February 19, 2013
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Physicist

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, 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.