Superfluidity finding earns physics Nobel. (Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson and David M. Lee win 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for transforming liquid helium 3 into superfluid)(Brief Article)

Science News | October 19, 1996| | Copyright

A report in the April 3, 1972 Physical Review Letters described the discovery of a new phase of solid helium (SN: 4/15/72, p. 249). It took several more months for the report's authors, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson, and David M. Lee of Cornell University, to realize that they had instead transformed liquid helium-3 into a superfluid, a state of matter in which atoms move in a coordinated manner, allowing the liquid to flow without resistance.

Last week, Osheroff, Richardson, and Lee won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for this finding. "It was a tremendous ...

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