Who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richardson?
David Lee and Douglas Osheroff
Richard Feynman
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Answer
David Lee and Douglas Osheroff shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with William Daniel Phillips for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. Superfluidity is a state of matter in which a fluid flows without any friction or viscosity. This discovery has important implications for our understanding of quantum mechanics and the behavior of matter at very low temperatures.
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