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Robert Coleman Richardson

American physicist

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Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.

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Place of birth
Washington, D.C. wd
Died
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Place of death
Ithaca wd
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United States wd
Occupation
physicist, university teacher wd
Education
Duke University, Virginia Tech, Washington-Liberty High School, Virginia Tech College of Science wd

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  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1996)
  • Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Eagle Scout
  • Simon Memorial Prize (1976)

About

Richardson was born in Washington D.C. He went to high school at Washington-Lee in Arlington, Virginia. He later described Washington-Lee's biology and physics courses as "very old-fashioned" for the time. "The idea of 'advanced placement' had not yet been invented," he wrote in his Nobel Prize autobiography. He took his first calculus course when he was a sophomore in college.

Richardson attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1966.

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When was Robert Coleman Richardson born?
Robert Coleman Richardson was born on 26 June 1937 in Washington, D.C..
Where did Robert Coleman Richardson study?
Robert Coleman Richardson was educated at Duke University, Virginia Tech, Washington-Liberty High School, Virginia Tech College of Science.

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  1. Wikipedia (English): Robert Coleman Richardson · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q192708 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Robert Coleman Richardson.jpg by Silin2005 (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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