John D. Anderson (physicist)

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John D. Anderson (born December 10, 1930 in Jamestown (New York) ) is an American nuclear physicist .

Anderson studied physics at San Diego State College (Bachelor 1951) and at the University of California, Berkeley , where he made his master's degree in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1956. Immediately thereafter, he went to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , where he was department head in 1973, assistant director in 1978 and later director of the physics department.

In 1961 he and Calvin Wong showed the existence of isobaric analogue states (IAS) in direct nuclear reactions with mirror nuclei . In these, a proton in the nucleus is exchanged for a neutron in a (p, n) reaction, thus creating the analog state to the original nucleus state in the mirror nucleus. The analog states are a consequence and proof of the isospin independence of the nuclear forces.

In 1964 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1972 he and Donald Robson received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JD Anderson, C. Wong: Evidence for Charge Independence in Medium Weight Nuclei . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 7 , no. 6 , September 15, 1961, pp. 250-252 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.7.250 .
  2. ↑ JD Anderson, C. Wong, JW McClure: Isobaric States in Nonmirror Nuclei . In: Physical Review . tape 126 , no. 6 , June 15, 1962, pp. 2170–2173 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.126.2170 .
  3. ↑ This was suggested as early as 1959 by SD Bloom, NK Glendenning, SA Moszkowski: Proton-Neutron Interaction and the (p, n) Reaction in Mirror Nuclei . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 3 , no. 2 , July 15, 1959, p. 98-99 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.3.98 .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, John D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamestown