Their just rewards

The 1996 Nobel laureates in physics display their medals after the awards ceremony in Stockholm, Dec. 10. They are: Cornell professors David M. Lee, left, and Robert C. Richardson, right, and StanfordŐs Douglas Osheroff. Osheroff was a Cornell graduate student studying under Lee and Richardson in the 1970s when the three discovered the superfluidity of helium-3. Below, Lee (left) and Richardson receive their medals and congratulations from King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden.The Associated Press

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