The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
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David M. Lee
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Douglas D. Osheroff
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Robert C. Richardson
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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