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Article: Captivated by the cold.(Higher Education)(Low-temperature physics fascinates a UO professor)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2002
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Byline: GREG BOLT The Register-Guard
RUSS DONNELLY likes to play in the cold.
Not snowball cold. Not Arctic cold. Not even outer space cold.
Donnelly, a physics professor at the University of Oregon, likes it so cold that atoms themselves slow down and liquid helium becomes so slippery that once set in motion it might never stop. He's a master of the ultra-cold, a Jack Frost of physics.
And Donnelly's explorations in the world far below zero recently earned him one of the most prestigious awards in physics. The Fritz London Memorial Prize is perhaps second only to the Nobel Prize, and seven previous London recipients also have become ...