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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.
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:
| 2012 |
Colin Fallon, Hilton Galyean, Telemachos Manos, Sophia Novitzky, Robert Orlean-Pobee, John Rahmani, Han Tong, Rebekah Watkins, Julia Zukowski |
| 2011 |
Rachel Elliot, Joseph Heimburger, Robert Heitz, Thomas Howe, Patrick Lewis, Nicholas Merrill, Peter Raum, Anna Skinner, Matthew White, Tristan Wright |
| 2010 |
Niels Christensen, Courtney Laughlin, Patrick Lewis, Gabriel Martinez, Matthew Mills, Frederick Moretti, Kyle Novak, Tyler Price, Peter Raum, James Ward, Harry White |
| 2009 |
Robert Heitz, Daniel Hockensmith, Robert Kania, Andrew Lassiter, Colin Lorenz, William Love, Paul Miller, Kyle Novak, Nich Schaum, James Shpil, Joseph Sullivan |
| 2008 |
Charles Baker, Justin Bangerter, Jonathan Cates, Alexander Corwin, Clinton Durney, John Echols, John Frey, Matthew Grote, Gordon Lott, Chris Martin, Curtis Ogle, Lake Singh, Ryan Smith, Joseph Sullivan, Christopher Tolpa, Justin Waugh, Sophia Webster |
| 2007 |
Seth Ball, Justin Bangerter, Jonathan Cates, James Dowd, Wade Duvall, Kevin Finelli, Julian McMorrow, Brent Pickering, Shane Seaman, Lake Singh, Stefan Tatka, Christopher Tolpa,
Lado Tonia, Byron Wiedeman |
| 2006 |
Daniel Baker, Anna Belak, Timothy Donahue, James Dowd, Kevin Finelli, Jonathan Hughes, Brendon Loiselle, Elizabeth Lowry, Sean Settle, Byron Wiedeman |
| 2005 |
Samir Abboud, Geoffrey Adams, Xinwei Gong, Jonathan Hughes, Heike Lohse-Busch,
Linh Pham, Eric Ward |
| 2004 |
Xinwei Gong, Jung Ho Kang, Heike Lohse-Busch, Travis Merritt, Annalisa Pawlosky,
Brian Skinner |
| 2003 |
Rafael Hipolito, Justin Krometis, Aaron Wallo |
| 2002 |
Larry Cook, Christopher Graziul, Beth Reid |
| 2001 |
Rafael Hipolito |
| 2000 |
Michael D. Bryant |
| 1999 |
Victor Gehman |
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