Robert Richardson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-22-4200
Scope and content
Includes correspondence, lab notebooks, publications and subject files pertaining to Richardson's career at Cornell.
Dates
- 1965-2013.
Creator
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
Richardson was an experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. He, along with David Lee, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics.
Biographical / Historical
Richardsons received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960 from Virginia Tech and his PhD from Duke University in 1965.
Extent
50 cubic feet. (50 cubic feet.)
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)