Who did Osheroff share the Nobel with?
He didn't win a Nobel
Richard Feynman
David Lee and Robert C. Richardson
John Bardeen
Answer
Osheroff shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson for their discovery of superfluidity in liquid helium-3. They discovered that helium-3 can be cooled to a temperature below 2.17 kelvins (-455.87 degrees Fahrenheit), at which point it becomes a superfluid, a state in which it flows without resistance. This discovery led to new understanding of the properties of matter at very low temperatures.
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