Douglas Osheroff

Douglas Osheroff
Osheroff in 2011
Born	Douglas Dean Osheroff (1945-08-01) August 1, 1945 (age 78) Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (B.S.), Cornell University (Ph.D.)
Known for	Discovering superfluidity in Helium-3
Spouse	Phyllis Liu ​ (m. 1970)​
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1996) Simon Memorial Prize (1976) Buckley Prize (1981) MacArthur Fellowship Program (1981)
Scientific career
Fields	Experimental Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
Institutions	Stanford University Bell Labs
Doctoral advisor	David Lee

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.^[1] Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Stanford University.