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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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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

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

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

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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