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Douglas Osheroff

1945 - Today

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Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson. Osheroff is currently the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Osheroff has received more than 121,788 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Douglas Osheroff is the 194th most popular physicist (up from 270th in 2019), the 740th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,346th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 59

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  • 19.23

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  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Douglas Osheroff ranks 194 out of 851. Before him are David Bohm, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Wolfgang Paul, Benjamin Thompson, Robert H. Goddard, and Nikolay Basov. After him are Herbert Kroemer, Edward Mills Purcell, Steven Weinberg, Ilya Frank, Anton Zeilinger, and Pyotr Kapitsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Douglas Osheroff ranks 44. Before him are Mahmoud al-Zahar, Goldie Hawn, Jacky Ickx, Neil Young, Jacqueline du Pré, and John Lithgow. After him are Anton Zeilinger, Roger Glover, Ram Nath Kovind, Linda Hunt, Dési Bouterse, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Osheroff ranks 740 out of 20,380. Before him are Christopher Lambert (1957), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Truman Capote (1924), Walter Matthau (1920), and Alan Arkin (1934). After him are Josephine Cochrane (1839), Ron Perlman (1950), John Carpenter (1948), Alan Shepard (1923), Robert Mitchum (1917), and Burt Reynolds (1936).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Douglas Osheroff ranks 30. Before him are James Rainwater (1917), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Charles H. Townes (1915), David Bohm (1992), Benjamin Thompson (1753), and Robert H. Goddard (1882). After him are Edward Mills Purcell (1912), Steven Weinberg (1933), Michio Kaku (1947), David J. Wineland (1944), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921), and Robert Hofstadter (1915).

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