Sven Gösta Nilsson

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Sven Gösta Nilsson (born January 14, 1927 in Kristianstad , † April 24, 1979 in Lund ) was a Swedish nuclear physicist .

Nilsson was the son of a Protestant preacher and lost his parents at an early age. He first studied technical physics at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm and during this time spent a year in Pasadena . In 1950 he switched to theoretical physics at Lund University . There he developed the Nilsson model for deformed nuclei named after him as a system of independent nucleons in a deformed potential, through which he became famous. He worked with Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , where Nilsson was already in 1952, but at the time worked with experimenters like Thomas Lauritsen . In 1955 he received his doctorate in Lund.

In 1963 he became a professor for mathematical physics in Lund. In 1956/57, 1960/61 and 1972/73 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

He also investigated the influence of single-particle states on the nuclear fission process, the influence of pair correlations (with prior) and the existence of super-heavy elements, especially the island of magic particle numbers around the element with atomic number 114.

Since 1974 he was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nilsson Binding states of individual nucleons in strongly deformed nuclei , Kgl. Dansk Vid. Selsk., Math.Fys. Medd., Volume 29, 1955, No. 16, Nilsson, Mottelson Kgl. Dansk Vid. Selsk., Math.Fys. Medd., Volume 30, 1955, No. 1
  2. ^ Nilsson, Prior The effect of pair correlations on the moment of inertia and the collective gyromagnetic ratio of deformed nuclei , Kgl. Dansk Vid. Selsk., Math.Fys. Medd., Volume 32, 1961, No. 16
personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Sven Gösta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristianstad
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1979
Place of death Lund