Robert C. Richardson, Ph.D.

Dr. Richardson is the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Research at Cornell University. He attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1965. His past experimental work focused on the study of physical phenomena at very low temperatures. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Morris Lee and Douglas Osheroff for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3. Dr. Richardson was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1986.