Sven Gösta Nilsson
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 .
Web links
- Torsten Gustafson: A portrait of Sven Gösta Nilsson. Lund University, 1980, archived from the original on April 27, 2006 (English).
- Ben Mottelson: The Nilsson Model and Sven Gösta Nilsson . In: Physica Scripta . T125, 2006, doi : 10.1088 / 0031-8949 / 2006 / T125 / E02 ( iop.org [PDF]).
Individual evidence
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
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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 |