Which prestigious prize did Douglas Osheroff share in 1996?
Nobel Prize in Physics
Oscar for Best Actor
Pulitzer Prize for Literature
Grammy for Best Album
Answer
Douglas Osheroff shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell for their discovery of Bose-Einstein condensates, a new state of matter. Bose-Einstein condensates are formed when a gas of atoms is cooled to temperatures so low that the atoms lose all their energy and begin to behave as a single entity.
Unraveling the Genius: The Douglas Osheroff Quiz
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