Ben Roy Mottelson

Ben Roy Mottelson
Mottelson 1963 in Copenhagen
Born(1926-07-09)9 July 1926
Died13 May 2022(2022-05-13) (aged 95)
Copenhagen, Denmark
CitizenshipAmerican, Danish
Alma materPurdue University (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forGeometry of atomic nuclei
Spouse(s)Nancy Jane Reno (1948–1975; 3 children)
Britta Marger Siegumfeldt
(m. 1983)
AwardsAtoms for Peace Award (1969)
John Price Wetherill Medal (1974)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1975)
Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1980)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
InstitutionsNordita
ThesisThe ground states of lithium-6 and lithium-7 (1950)
Doctoral advisorJulian Schwinger

Ben Roy Mottelson (9 July 1926 – 13 May 2022) was an American-Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.