Professor Douglas D. Osheroff is the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professorship in Physics at Stanford University. He also teaches an interesting and engaging seminar on photography through the Physics Department. In 1996, Professor Osheroff was Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1996 for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
He also won many other awards, including the Simon Memorial Prize in 1976, the Oliver E. Buckley Prize in 1981, and the MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1981.
Professor Osheroff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Although Professor Osheroff is extremely busy, he was very kind and generous to have taken time from his schedule to be a guest on our show to play some of his favorite musical selections and to relay some thoughtful and inspirational words.