John Rasmussen

John O. Rasmussen (* 1926 ) is an American nuclear physicist .

Rasmussen graduated from Caltech (Bachelor in 1948) and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1952. In 1953 he was visiting professor at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm and in 1962/62 at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. From 1969 to 1972 he was a professor and assistant director of the heavy ion accelerator laboratory at Yale University . He then went to Berkeley University at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

In 1967 he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize for his outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the core structure through imaginative experimental and theoretical investigations . In 1976, he received the American Chemical Society's Glenn T. Seaborg Award in Nuclear Chemistry.

In 1972 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1991 as a Humboldt Senior Fellow in Munich . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Chemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1984 he received an honorary professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai .

There are a few other experimental nuclear physicists named Rasmussen who should not be confused with him, the Danish nuclear physicist Ebbe Kjeld Rasmussen (1901-1959), a close collaborator of Niels Bohr , and the reactor safety expert Norman Rasmussen (1927-2003).

Web links

• Page on Rasmussen at Berkeley University .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laudation : For his outstanding contributions to the better understanding of nuclear structure by his imaginative experimental and theoretical studies