Mottelson
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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 and his co-winners of the 1975 prize were honored for work that scientists regard as one of the landmarks in the development of nuclear physics.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022
Drawing heavily on insights from quantum mechanics, Bohr and Dr. Mottelson published their theory in 1953.
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2022
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.
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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