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Nobel-prize-winning nuclear physicist Ben Roy Mottelson dies aged 95

20 May 2022 Michael Banks
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Atomic pioneer: Ben Roy Mottelson challenged the widely accepted theory that all nuclei are perfectly spherical (courtesy: Nobel Foundation)
The American-Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Ben Roy Mottelson died on 13 May at the age of 95.

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