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Ben Roy Mottelson

1926 - 2022

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Roy Mottelson is the 95th most popular physicist (up from 110th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from United States (up from 395th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Physicist.

Ben Roy Mottelson is most famous for his contributions to the field of astrophysics. He was one of the first scientists to propose that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. He also made significant contributions to understanding the structure of the sun and solar system.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 95 out of 851. Before him are Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, Otto von Guericke, Carl David Anderson, and Barry Barish. After him are J. Hans D. Jensen, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, Eugene Wigner, and Donald A. Glaser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 12. Before him are Ingvar Kamprad, Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Dario Fo. After him are Vasily Arkhipov, Donald A. Glaser, Klaus Kinski, René Goscinny, Sathya Sai Baba, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 2022, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 12. Before him are Jiang Zemin, Shinzō Abe, Vangelis, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Jean-Luc Godard, and Leonid Kravchuk. After him are Francisco Gento, Luc Montagnier, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mahsa Amini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 294 out of 20,380. Before him are Barry Barish (1936), Tony Curtis (1925), Val Kilmer (1959), William Boeing (1881), Jerome Powell (1953), and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934). After him are Gwyneth Paltrow (1972), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Pete Conrad (1930), Axl Rose (1962), Estée Lauder (1906), and George Shultz (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ben Roy Mottelson ranks 11. Before him are Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), and Barry Barish (1936). After him are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Willis Lamb (1913), and Owen Chamberlain (1920).

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