Скачать или смотреть Douglas Osheroff, Nobel Prize in Physics 1996: On his childhood childhood experiments

"I was so famous for practical jokes that she, of course, couldn't trust anything I did." Hear physicist Douglas Osheroff share some stories from his wild childhood.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 was awarded jointly to David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3."

When certain substances are cooled to extremely low temperatures, they become superfluid, flowing without any friction. This applies to helium-4, the most common form of helium, but for a long time the superfluidity of helium-3 was in dispute. The different types of helium are described by different quantum mechanical rules and equations under which helium-4 has a whole-number spin while helium-3 has a half-number spin. In 1972 Douglas Osheroff, David Lee and Robert Richardson verified that helium-3 also becomes superfluid at extremely low temperatures.

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