Science and Medicine

HIS BEAKER RUNNETH OVER
Physicist Douglas Osheroff Wins Nobel Prize

By David F. Salisbury

he phone call came, as they usually do, in the middle of the night.

“Is this Douglas Osheroff?” a voice inquired politely.

“Yes, this is Douglas Osheroff! Do you know that it’s 2:30 in the morning!”

The caller apologized but said he had a matter of “considerable urgency” to discuss. When he rattled off his name ­ Carl Olof Jacobson ­ and said he was calling from Stockholm, physicist Doug Osheroff “suddenly realized what was going on.”

Osheroff's super cool theories
earn him a Nobel

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was calling to inform him that he had been chosen to share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the

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