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.

External links

• Nobel Archive 1996
• Stanford Physics Department - Osheroff
• Osheroff Learning of his Nobel Prize - Osheroff released this recording from his answering machine, which showed his initial annoyance with a 2:30 AM phone call.