Cornell's Nobel Prize Winners

The three winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics gathered in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University shortly after the prize was announced in October. It was in this lab that they made the prize-winning discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium-3 in 1972. From left: Douglas Osheroff, professor of physics at Stanford University, David M. Lee, professor of physics at Cornell and Robert C. Richardson, the Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics at Cornell. At the time of the discovery Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell working with Richardson and Lee. Click here for a high-resolution version of this image.

Cornell's four resident Nobel laureates: Hans Bethe, the John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics emeritus, 1967 prize in physics; David M. Lee, professor of physics, 1996 prize in physics; Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor in Humane Letters, 1981 prize in Chemistry; and Robert C. Richardson, the Floyd R. Newman Professor of Physics, 1996 prize in physics. Click here for a high-resolution version of this image.

Physicists David M. Lee (front) and Robert C. Richardson in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell. Richardson, Lee and physicist Douglas Osheroff of Stanford University shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium-3, which they made in this lab in 1972. Click here for a high-resolution version of this image.

Photos 1 and 3 by Robert Barker; photo 2 by Charles Harrington, both of Cornell University Photography