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Robert Coleman Richardson 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 o…
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science · American experimental physicist (1937–2013) · physicist · university teacher · also Robert Coleman Richardson, Bob Richardson, Richardson
Born 26 June 1937 · Died 19 February 2013 · Q192708
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Died 2013-02-19.
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Published “<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 23,618 times.
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,995 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1996).
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Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1981).
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Awarded Simon Memorial Prize (1976).
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Born 1937-06-26.
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