Doug Osheroff

We went to Doug Osheroff's interview at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, USA, North America, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, M317594586859 Universe, Universe.

In 1976, Doug Osheroff experimented with superfluidity in Helium. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1996 for his work on superfluidity in Helium 3. We went into the auditorium and got one of the best seats as it was really close to the mike. First, a lady introduced someone who in turn introduced Doug Osheroff. Then, he was interviewed and he told his audience about the Columbia space shuttle accident and said something about how to be a good teacher and climate changes. But, he barely talked three sentences about Helium-3 and superfluidity in this interview. But, he talked about his father and mother who were from Europe and about his wife who said "Don't you do that" for investigating the space shuttle Columbia accident.The piece of foam was going at 877 km/hr and it damaged the left wing. This caused the shuttle to heat up on re-entry killing the seven astronauts inside the shuttle.

When the uninteresting interview was over, I went to Dr. Osheroff and when I was about to ask my question, Daddy asked it instead. The question that he asked was on a NOVA program that said that you can cool atoms using lasers. How can do that since lasers are usually used to heat things and not to cool them? He said, "If you tune the frequency of the laser to be a little higher than the atom's frequency, you can slow the atom down."

We came back home.
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