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The Robert Coleman Richardson Scholarship Through a generous gift by an anonymous donor, this scholarship has been established in honor of Dr. Robert C. Richardson, Nobel Laureate and F. R. Newman Professor of Physics at Cornell University. Dr. Richardson attended Virginia Tech from 1954 to 1960 and earned his bachelor's and master's degress in physics. After a brief time in the United States Army, he returned to graduate school in physics at Duke University where he earned a Ph.D. in 1966. He then went on to Cornell University where he continued his research on low temperature physics, in particular, the study of the properties of liquid and solid Helium-3. In 1971 he discovered, in collaboration with David Lee and Douglas Osheroff, that liquid Helium-3 undergoes a pairing transition similar to that of superconductors. The three were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics for this discovery. |
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The Robert Coleman Richardson Scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate physics major deemed especially deserving. The scholarship rewards academic talent, responsibility, and industry. Past recipients:
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