Mottelson

American  

[mot-l-suhn, -sawn] / ˈmɒt l sən, -ˌsɔn /

noun

1. Ben R(oy), 1926–2022, American-Danish physicist, born in the United States: Nobel Prize 1975.

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Example Sentences

Ben Roy Mottelson, an American-born physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking explanation of the structure and behavior of the atomic nucleus, including its shape, its rotations and its oscillations, died May 13.

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Dr. Mottelson worked particularly closely with Bohr, and the theory that has become a milestone in understanding the nucleus is known as the Bohr-Mottelson theory.

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In research carried out in the early 1950s, Bohr and Dr. Mottelson showed in mathematical detail how particles, on the one hand, and the collection of particles, on the other, influenced the other: how they, in essence, pulled and pushed on each other, in a manner that affected the actions of the individual particles and the shape and actions of the group of particles.

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Ben Roy Mottelson was born in Chicago July 9, 1926, and grew up in La Grange, Ill. His father was an engineer, and his mother was a homemaker.

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Drawing heavily on insights from quantum mechanics, Bohr and Dr. Mottelson published their theory in 1953.

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