AKA Ben Roy Mottelson

Born: 9-Jul-1926
Birthplace: Chicago, IL

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Denmark
Executive summary: Determined shapes of nuclei

Danish citizen since 1971.

Father: Goodman Mottelson (engineer)
Mother: Georgia Blum
Wife: Nancy Jane Reno (m. 1948, three children)

    High School: (La Grange, IL)
    University: BS, Purdue University (1947)
    University: PhD, Harvard University (1950)
    Professor: Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics, Copenhagen (1957-)
    Professor: Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1959)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1975 (with Aage N. Bohr and James Rainwater)

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