David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996, announced October 9, 1996. David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, and Robert C. Richardson, “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”. David M. Lee: born 1931, Rye, NY, USA. Douglas D. Osheroff: born 1945, Aberdeen, WA, USA. Robert C. Richardson: born 1937, Washington, D.C., USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).