Douglas Osheroff

Douglas Dean Osheroff is a physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his codiscovery of superfluidity in Helium3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson.

Osheroff was born in Aberdeen, Washington. His father, William Osheroff, was the son of Jewish immigrants who left Russia. His mother, Bessie Anne , a nurse, was the daughter of Slovak immigrants . Osheroff was confirmed in the Lutheran Church but he was given the chance to choose and decided not to attend any longer. He has stated In some sense it seemed that lying in church is the worst place to lie. I guess at some emotional level I accept the idea of God, but I dont know how God would manifest itself.

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