Lise Meitner Prize for Nuclear Science year 2004
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RECIPIENTS OF THE 2004 LISE MEITNER PRIZE FOR NUCLEAR SCIENCE
Awarded by the European Physical Society

Motivation.doc




Bent Herskind
(Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

The medal



Peter Twin
(Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

The medal


The Prize is awarded for their
pioneering development of experimental tools, methods of analysis
and experimental discoveries concerning rapidly spinning nuclei,
in particular the discovery of superdeformed bands in wide regions of the periodic table.

Some pictures of the award ceremony

More can be found at this website

A recent article on the 2004 prize is available as .doc file.