On Friday, the 13th of May  2022, the Nobel Prize winner Ben Mottelson passed away.

Ben Mottelson was the laureate of the Nobel Prize in nuclear physics in 1975 (together with Aage Bohr and James Rainwater) “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.
He was the co-author of the nuclear physics monographs (called sometime nuclear physics “bible”) – volume 1 “Nuclear Structure” and volume 2 “Nuclear Deformations”.

Ben Mottelson collaborated with many Polish physicists. He was also awarded with the Polish “Marian Smoluchowski Medal” in 1980.

The beam-time schedule foreseen till mid of July 2022 is available here.

With a great pleasure we invite you to the forthcoming HIL seminar that will take place on Wednesday, the 18th of May, 2022, at 12:15 CET in the library.

dr Hasan Maridi,  scholar of the ULAM project of the NAWA agency

will give a lecture: “Coulomb breakup of exotic nuclei studied by means of dynamic polarization potential”