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Douglas D Osheroff
Prof. Douglas D Osheroff (Stanford)
Nobel laureate, Physics
Doug Osheroff has pioneered work on phenomena
occurring at extremely low temparatures- he was awarded
his Nobel prize for the discovery of superfluid He-3
(made while he was a PhD student), found only below
3/1000 of a degree above absolute zero. At these
temperatures matter behaves in extremely strange ways-
recently he has been looking at how quantum fluids like
superfluid He-4 flow on diaphanous structures called
'aerogels'. In the course of his work on He-3, Osheroff
developed what later, in medical labs and hospitals, came
to be called "Magnetic Resonance imaging".
Visit his webpage.
University of British Columbia
Hennings Building, 6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada