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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater for connecting collective motion with individual-particle motion in atomic nuclei and developing a theory of nuclear structure from that connection.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1975 record: CERN-hosted slide 8 gives all three full names and one-third shares; IN2P3-hosted slide reproduces full individual official motivation and its canonical URL.
Nuclear structure Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Nuclear structure concerns the states and internal organization of an atomic nucleus, including nuclear energy levels, nuclear spin, spatial distributions and the interactions among nucleons. It connects the nucleus's constituents to observable excitation and decay patterns.
A nuclear level scheme organizes measured transition energies and assignments. Gamma decay constrains differences between levels, while reaction and scattering measurements provide complementary information about allowed transitions and spatial distributions. Several models can describe different aspects of the same nucleus; matching one transition energy alone does not establish a unique microscopic arrangement.