ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas D. Osheroff is a very smart scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1996. He did a lot of really cool experiments to figure out how atoms behave when they get really, really cold - even colder than outer space!

One thing he discovered was something called "superfluidity" in a special type of helium gas. Superfluidity is when a liquid can flow without any friction or resistance, which is just like going down a slide without any bumps or stops - really fun!

Douglas D. Osheroff was able to discover and explain how superfluidity works, which helped other scientists understand more about how things work on a very tiny, atomic level. It's kind of like how a puzzle piece fits perfectly into a puzzle - he helped figure out how some tiny atomic pieces fit together in a really cool way. And that's why he's so famous and awesome!