Nobel Prize winner to speak at Penn State Harrisburg

Douglas D. Osheroff, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physics, will deliver the 2004 Penn State Harrisburg Distinguished Statisticians Lecture Wednesday, March 24, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Capital Union Building with a reception to follow. At age 6, Osheroff was taking apart his toys to study the electric motors that powered them. At age 10, playing with old telephone company equipment, he discovered you could get quite an electric shock by hooking up a solenoid to a battery, and as a high school student, he built a 10,000-volt X-ray machine out of secondhand parts. His intense interest in science led Osheroff to the Nobel Prize for Physics which he shared with two colleagues for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 - which came when he was a graduate student at Cornell University.
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