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unusual facts about atomic physics



Isomeric shift

Under its Mössbauer variant, the isomeric shift has found important applications in domains as different as Atomic Physics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Geology, and Lunar research.

Manne Siegbahn

Siegbahn's precision measurements drove many developments in quantum theory and atomic physics.


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Bogolyubov Prize for young scientists

2005 Aurélien Barrau (the Laboratory of sub-atomic physics and cosmology and Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France): for a series of works on astrophysics and cosmology.

Niels Bohr International Gold Medal

Alain Aspect, regarded as an outstanding figure in optical and atomic physics, was awarded the medal for his experiments on the Bell's inequalities test.

Peter Armbruster

His major research fields are fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of Jülich (1965 to 1970).

The World Set Free

Wells's knowledge of atomic physics came from reading William Ramsay, Ernest Rutherford, and Frederick Soddy; the latter discovered the disintegration of uranium.