Ben R. Mottelson's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

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Benjamin Roy Mottelson (9 July 1926 – 13 May 2022) was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. The birth-card coordinate for July 9 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1975 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1975 The Nobel Prize in Physics — 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

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

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Ben R. Mottelson in the public record

He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei. Mottelson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 9 July 1926, the son of Georgia (Blum) and Goodman Mottelson, an engineer. His family was Jewish. After graduating from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois, he joined the United States Navy and was sent to attend officers training at Purdue University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1947. He then earned a PhD in nuclear physics from Harvard University in 1950. His thesis adviser was Julian Schwinger, the theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics. He moved to Institute for Theoretical Physics (later the Niels Bohr Institute) at the University of Copenhagen on the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship from Harvard, and remained in Denmark. In 1953 he was appointed staff member in CERN's Theoretical Study Group, which was based in Copenhagen, a position he held until he became professor at the newly formed Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) in 1957.

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He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.

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Also on the record

1. He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 1959.
2. In 1971 he became a naturalized Danish citizen.
3. In 1950–1951, James Rainwater and Aage Bohr had developed models of the atomic nucleus which began to take into account the behaviour of the individual nucleons.
4. These models, which moved beyond the simpler liquid drop treatment of the nucleus as having effectively no internal structure, were the first models which could explain a number of nuclear properties, including the non-spherical distribution of charge in certain nuclei.

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• James M. Buchanan Jr. — 1986 Economic Sciences
• James P. Allison — 2018 Physiology or Medicine
• Jennifer A. Doudna — 2020 Chemistry
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• John C. Mather — 2006 Physics
• 15 more laureates share this card.

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