Surrey nuclear physicists celebrate 50 years of research
Monday 28 July 2008
Nuclear physicists from around the world recently gathered at the University of Surrey for a 3-day celebration of nuclear physics. The event marked 50 years of nuclear physics research, since Professor Lewis Elton initiated the activity at the Battersea College of Technology in 1958. The Surrey nuclear physics group is now one of the largest of its kind in the UK, with a unique mix of theory, experiment and application.
After opening the proceedings, Professor Christopher Snowden, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey, handed over to Professor Elton himself to welcome the delegates. Professor Elton had done seminal work on nuclear size, and the keynote speaker, Professor Isao Tanihata from Osaka, Japan, built on Professor Elton's foundations to bring the audience up-to-date with the remarkably large size of nuclear 'halos'. Delegates at the '50th Anniversary Symposium on Nuclear Sizes and Shapes' went on to present and discuss a wide range of nuclear physics, a subject which is entering a new era, based on the advent of accelerators for beams of radioactive isotopes.
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