David Lee (physicist)

David M. Lee (born January 20, 1931) is a physicist whose work on low-temperature helium won him the Nobel Prize in 1996.

Work

In 1972, he published his work on Helium-3 superfluidity with Robert C. Richardson and graduate student, Doug Osheroff He also worked on the discovery of nuclear spin waves in spin polarized atomic hydrogen gas with Jack H. Freed.

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1972 - Superfluidity - Robert C. Richardson - Doug Osheroff - Nuclear spin

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He received the 1976 Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize of the British Institute of Physics and the 1981 Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society along with Doug Osheroff and Robert Richardson for their superfluid 3He work. The trio received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for this work.

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1976 - Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize - British Institute of Physics - 1981 - Oliver Buckley Prize - American Physical Society - Nobel Prize in Physics - 1996

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Lee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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National Academy of Sciences - American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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