What was Mottelson's Nobel Prize work about?
Non-spherical nuclei
Black holes
Quantum entanglement
Superconductivity
Answer
Mottelson's Nobel Prize work focused on the study of non-spherical nuclei. He discovered that atomic nuclei, previously thought to be spherical, could actually have deformed shapes. This discovery revolutionized our understanding of nuclear structure and led to the development of new models for describing the behavior of nuclei.
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