Mottelson
Americannoun
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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.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
Their collaboration was described by Dr. Mottelson in his Nobel Prize biography as “a dialogue between kindred spirits.”
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
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.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
Dr. Mottelson then went on a fellowship to what was then the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, a renowned center of scientific discovery.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
That summer, working with Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson at the Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Pines extended BCS theory to nuclear physics.
From Nature • Aug. 19, 2018
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