Celebrating innovation in young scientists in North America and Latin America

The objective of this Science Prize is to promote and recognise the novel work of young scientists conducting research employing low temperature, high magnetic fields or surface science research in North America and Latin America.

The Lee Osheroff Richardson consists of:

• $15,000 cash prize

• A certificate and trophy

• Support to attend the APS March Meeting 2025.

Nominations are now OPEN

Please submit your nominations to: leeosheroffrichardsonprize@oxinst.com.

Lee Osheroff Richardson

The Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize for North America and Latin America is named after David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson who were joint winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996, for their discovery of superfluidity in ³He.

They conducted the Nobel prize winning research in the early 1970's in the low temperature laboratory at Cornell University using apparatus they had built to produce sample temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero. Their findings proved that the helium isotope ³He can be made superfluid at a temperature only about two thousandths of a degree above absolute zero. The discovery initiated intensive research on the special characteristics of the new quantum liquid. Lee, Osheroff and Richardson have also received, among other awards, the Sir Francis Simon Memorial Prize 1976 (Institute of Physics UK), and the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize 1980 (American Physical Society); for the discovery of superfluidity in ³He.

Oxford Instruments would like to thank David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson for permission to name the prize after them.

The 2024 LOR Science Prize Winner 

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Tiancheng Song of Princeton University has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize. Learn more about Dr. Tiancheng Song here.

“I feel very encouraged that my works have been recognized by the committee. This becomes even more encouraging because I am joining the ranks of famous scientists who have won this prize for their groundbreaking experiments and achievements. Being awarded a prize that is named after three Nobel Prize laureates in physics is also a special honour to me.”