Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996, for discovering the superfluidic nature of 3He. This discovery was made in 1971, while Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell.
Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he was a student of Richard Feynman. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1973.
He now teaches at Stanford University.
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