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Robert Coleman Richardson

1937 - 2013

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Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) 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 of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Richardson was born in Washington D.C. He went to high school at Washington-Lee in Arlington, Virginia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Coleman Richardson has received more than 121,966 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Robert Coleman Richardson is the 128th most popular physicist (up from 142nd in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from United States (up from 585th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Physicist.

Robert Richardson is most famous for his work as a photographer. He is best known for his work in the field of photojournalism, and he is famous for his work on the front lines of the Vietnam War.

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  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 128 out of 851. Before him are Javier Solana, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, C. V. Raman, Val Logsdon Fitch, and François Englert. After him are Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, and Walther Bothe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 23. Before him are Queen Paola of Belgium, Madeleine Albright, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Vanessa Redgrave, and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples. After him are Egon Krenz, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Gordon Banks, and Bruce McLaren. Among people deceased in 2013, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 14. Before him are Jorge Rafael Videla, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Djalma Santos, Giulio Andreotti, and Frederick Sanger. After him are Douglas Engelbart, Lou Reed, Paul Walker, Boris Berezovsky, Nílton Santos, and Giuliano Gemma.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 463 out of 20,380. Before him are William G. Morgan (1870), Danny Trejo (1944), Roy Lichtenstein (1923), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Ralph Lauren (1939), and Elinor Ostrom (1933). After him are Bryan Cranston (1956), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Iggy Pop (1947), Jayne Mansfield (1933), Dick Cheney (1941), and Steven Van Zandt (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert Coleman Richardson ranks 15. Before him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Joseph Henry (1797), and Val Logsdon Fitch (1923). After him are Donald A. Glaser (1926), Kip Thorne (1940), Arthur Compton (1892), Hugh Everett III (1930), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and George E. Smith (1930).

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