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Robert Coleman Richardson is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3.... Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1972 discovery of the property of superfluidity in helium-3 atoms in the Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. He is currently the Floyd Newman Professor of Physics Cornell University, although he no longer operates a laboratory. His past experimental work focused on using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to study the quantum properties of liquids and solids at extremely low temperatures. Richardson attended Virginia Tech and received a B.S. in 1958 and a M.S. in 1960. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1965. He is an Eagle Scout, and mentioned the scouting activities of his youth in the biography he submitted to the Nobel Foundation at the time of his award.
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Fred D'Aguiar is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. Born in London to Guyanese parents, D'Aguiar spent his childhood from the age of two to... twelve in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His Bill of Rights, about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a finalist for the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University , Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts , and was Assistant Professor of English at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine . He was Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Miami. Since 2003, he has held the position of Professor of English and Co-Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech. He was also Northern Arts Literature Fellow at Newcastle and Durham Universities. D'Aguiar trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. His first collection of poetry, Mama Dot , was published to much acclaim.
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