Mottelson Benjamin
Country United States
Category Physics
Year 1975

Mottelson Benjamin, 1926, Year won 1975, a key figure in contemporary nuclear physics..

Benjamin Mottelson was born in Chicago in 1926.

He received the 1975 Nobel prize in physics, together with Aage Bohr and James Rainwater, for the development of a collective nucleus model, which explains the electric quadrupole phenomena, an uneven distribution of electrical charge in the nucleus.

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