February, 2013 Nobel laureate Robert C. Richardson, an experimental low-temperature physicist and one of Cornell’s most influential administrators, died Feb. 19 at a nursing home in Ithaca, N.Y.  Richardson served as Cornell’s first vice provost for research from 1998 to 2007 and also served as director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Read more about his amazing contributions to science and to Cornell in the Cornell Chronicle.