Peter J. Twin

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Peter John Twin (born July 26, 1937 in London ) is a British experimental nuclear physicist .

Twin was from 1964 Lecturer at the University of Liverpool , where he was Senior Lecturer and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Experimental Physics from 1987 . From 1997 to 2001 he was Lyons Jones Professor of Physics. He was also at Daresbury Laboratory, where he headed the Core Structure Group from 1983 to 1988.

In 1986 he discovered super-deformed nuclei with high spin ( Yrast line in the gamma spectrum). Daniel Kleppner counted the discovery in 1991, in addition to the discovery of large-scale structures in the cosmos (such as the extremely smooth CMB ), high-temperature superconductivity , laser cooling of atoms / atomic optics, buckyballs and supernova 1987 A among the most important in physics in the last five years. In retrospect, the phenomenon was already observed in 1962 when Sergei Michailowitsch Polikanow discovered spontaneous cleavage of isomers in heavy nuclei .

In 1991 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 1991 he received the Franklin Institute's Wetherill Award for experimental studies on super-deformed cores. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2004 he received the Lise Meitner Prize with Bent Herskind .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Twin u. a. Observation of a Discrete-Line Superdeformed Band up to 60 in 152 Dy , Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 57, 1986, pp. 811-814, abstract
  3. ^ Daniel Kleppner: A Lesson in Humility . In: Physics Today . tape 44 , no. 12 , 1991, pp. 9 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.2810343 (English). Kleppner criticizes the National Research Council's preview of physics (Brinkman Report) from 1986. Physics News Update # 60. December 27, 1991, archived from the original on September 6, 2004 .;
  4. ^ Wetherill Award. Franklin Institute, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  5. ^ Professor Peter Twin OBE FRS, Biography. Royal Society, accessed November 8, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Laudatory speech
personal data
SURNAME Twin, Peter J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Twin, Peter John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London