Nobel Prize in Physics 1996

David M. Lee

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Prize share: 1/3

Douglas D. Osheroff

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Prize share: 1/3

Robert C. Richardson

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Prize share: 1/3

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"

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