Richard F. Casten

Richard F. Casten (born November 1, 1941 ) is an American nuclear physicist .

Casten studied at the College of the Holy Cross , received his doctorate from Yale University in 1967 (he carried out the work for this at the MP1 tandem accelerator) and was then a post-doctoral student at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen until 1969 and then until 1971 at Los Alamos National Laboratory . From 1971 he was a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory , where he became a senior scientist and group leader (from 1981, Nuclear Structure Group) and was until 1997. There he investigated the structure of nuclei with neutron capture . From 1995 he was at Yale University as professor and director of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL), which he remained until 2008. He has been the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics at Yale since 2006 . He was a visiting scientist at the University of Cologne (Institute for Nuclear Physics), at CERN ( ISOLDE facility), at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the Laue-Langevin Institute (1976/77) in Grenoble . Casten has been Professor Emeritus and Fellow at the Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty since 2015 .

Casten deals with nuclear structure investigations, in particular the formation and development of collective modes and deformation with the number of nucleons, phase transitions in nuclei ( Critical Point Symmetries according to Francesco Iachello ), the proton-neutron interaction in nuclei, dynamic symmetries in the Interacting Boson Approximation (IBA) ( Casten or IBM symmetry triangle, symmetry group O (6) ).

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the UK Institute of Physics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1983 he received the Humboldt Prize for Senior US Scientists . He holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bucharest and Surrey . He is co-editor of Physical Review C for experimental nuclear structure studies. In 2009 he received the Mentoring Award from the Nuclear Physics Section of the APS. In 2011 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 2008 he was chairman of the nuclear physics division of the APS and from 2003 to 2005 chairman of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC).

Fonts

• Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective , Oxford University Press 1990, 2nd edition 2001
• Editor Algebraic aspects of nuclear structure , Harwood Academic Publishers, 1993

Web links

• Homepage. Wright Laboratory, Yale University(English). 
• Richard Casten, D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics - Biographical Sketch. Department of Physics, Yale University(English). 
• R. Casten. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics
• Richard Casten is named D. Allan Bromley Professor. In: Yale Bulletin Vol. 34 (21). March 3, 2006, archived from the original on April 18, 2009 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rick Casten retires, July 2015 . In: Yale Physics News . Fall 2015, p. 20 ( issuu.com ).
2. ↑ Richard Casten. emeritus.yale.edu, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
3. ^ Richard Casten (D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics) was recently presented with the 2009 Mentoring Award by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society. yale.edu, November 2, 2009, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 2011 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient Richard F. Casten. APS ("For providing critical insight into the evolution of nuclear structure with varying proton and neutron numbers and the discovery of a variety of dynamic symmetries in nuclei.").