Now the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics at Stanford, Osheroff never lost his interest in photography. He used about $19,000 of the Nobel Prize money to buy a top-of-the-line Hasselblad 205 camera. The walls of his office in Varian Labs are lined with images he captured while traveling to scientific conferences around the world. Every year he teaches a course called The Physics of Photography. And this fall, several of his pictures were published in American Photo magazine.
Osheroff’s favorite subjects include architecture, landscapes and wildlife. He stays away from portraiture. “I tend to make people very nervous when I take their photos,” says the quick-talking scientist. “It’s just a disaster.”
