| Robert C. Richardson  AKA Robert Coleman Richardson
Born: 26-Jun-1937
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Superfluidity of helium-3 Military service: US Army (Ordnance Corps, 1959-60) Father: Robert Franklin Richardson (electrical lineman)
Mother: Lois Price Richardson
Sister: Addie Ann Richardson (6. b-May-1939)
Wife: Betty Marilyn McCarthy (m. 1962, two daughters)
Daughter: Jennifer (b. 1965)
Daughter: Pamela (b. 1966, d. 1994 heart failure)
High School: Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, VA
University: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
University: PhD, Duke University (1966)
Professor: Cornell University (1967-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1996 (with David M. Lee and Douglas D. Osheroff)
Eagle Scout
Guggenheim Fellowship 1975
American Association for the Advancement of Science 1981
American Physical Society 1983
National Academy of Sciences
Science Debate 2008
Author of books:
College Physics (2003, physics, with Alan Giambattista and Betty Richardson)
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