Occupation: Physicist Birth: December 9, 1917 Death: May 31, 1986
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918..
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics..
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach….
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model ….