The Original Paper

D. D. Osheroff, R. C. Richardson, and D. M. Lee, ``Evidence for a New Phase of Solid He-3'', Physical Review Letters 28, 885 (April, 1972). © Copyright Physical Review Letters, 1972.

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Notice that we didn't understand everything about the new phase for some time. In particular, the authors were wrong in thinking that the phase was a solid. They cleared this up in a later paper,

D. D. Osheroff, W. J. Gully, R. C. Richardson, and D. M. Lee, ``New Magnetic Phenomena in Liquid He-3 below 3 mK'', Physical Review Letters 29, 920 (October, 1972). © Copyright Physical Review Letters, 1972.

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Other Links

• Nobel Announcement
• The Original Paper(s)
• The Science Behind the Prize
• Bob Richardson's Home Page,
• Dave Lee's Home Page,
• Doug Osheroff's Home Page
• Quicktime Movie by Bob Richardson, exerpted from A World Without Disorder: Absolute Zero Temperature
• Cornell News Service Release
• Low temperature science - what remains for the physicist?'', Robert C. Richardson, Physics Today, August, 1981, p. 46.
• Cornell Low Temperature Group
• Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, and entertaining descriptions of the science done in LASSP.