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Douglas Osheroff

1945 - Today

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Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Douglas Osheroff is the 188th most popular physicist (up from 194th in 2019), the 711th most popular biography from United States (up from 740th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Douglas Osheroff ranks 188 out of 851. Before him are Isamu Akasaki, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, and Georg von Békésy. After him are George Smoot, Ilya Frank, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, and George Francis FitzGerald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Douglas Osheroff ranks 50. Before him are Mia Farrow, Adly Mansour, Goldie Hawn, Dési Bouterse, James Avery, and Alan Ball Jr.. After him are George Smoot, Keith Jarrett, Vinko Puljić, Jean Nouvel, Michael J. Smith, and Slobodan Praljak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Osheroff ranks 711 out of 20,380. Before him are Alice Cooper (1948), D. B. Cooper (1931), Ronald Evans (1933), Bryan Cranston (1956), Chester W. Nimitz (1885), and Anne Bancroft (1931). After him are George Smoot (1945), Donald Davidson (1917), Tom Clancy (1947), Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), and William Holden (1918).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Douglas Osheroff ranks 32. Before him are George E. Smith (1930), Leon Cooper (1930), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), Burton Richter (1931), and Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930). After him are George Smoot (1945), Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), Hugh David Politzer (1949), Kip Thorne (1940), Hugh Everett III (1930), and Murray Gell-Mann (1929).

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