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Magic numbers In 1949, Goeppert Mayer and Jensen developed the so-called shell model of the nucleus. Protons and neutrons occupy particular orbits, analogous to electrons, but they also have a ...

Findings in nuclear physics theory have received several Nobel Prizes (1975-nucleus vibrations and rotations, 1963-nuclear shell model, 1949-meson exchange model of nuclear forces). Despite these ...

Great Women of Science: First Woman Nobel Laureate in Theoretical Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in experimental Physics). It took ...

First experiments with the accelerated particles -- Nucleon-nucleon scattering -- Low-energy nuclear reactions Date 1998 C1998 Type Books Physical description xx, 441 p. : ill ; 24 cm Data Source ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the nuclear shell model, a theory pivotal to our understanding of the nuclei in atoms. It was developed by Nobel laureate, Maria Goeppert Mayer.

Formed from a cluster of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, a nucleus is 10,000 times smaller than the atom as a whole, "like a fly in a cathedral," said David Jenkins, a nuclear ...

One successful model describing this is the nuclear shell model, which treats nucleons as valence particles within a mean-field. Initially, this model was developed for nuclei near stability, where so ...

Fermium studied at GSI/FAIR — Researchers investigate nuclear properties of element 100 with laser light Peer-Reviewed Publication GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH ...