Mottelson

[ mot-l-suhn, -sawn ]

noun

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

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 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.

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In what is still regarded as one of the crowning achievements of nuclear physics, Dr. Mottelson helped show, using arguments and techniques from quantum theory, how each individual constituent of the nucleus — each proton and each neutron — exerted an effect on the properties and character of the nucleus as a whole.

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

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