J. P. Elliott, M. Harvey, Collective Motion in the Nuclear Shell Model. III. The Calculation of Spectra, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A ...

The first precise mass measurements of an extremely short-lived and proton-rich nucleus, silicon-22, have revealed the “magic” – that is, unusually tightly bound – nature of nuclei containing 14 ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the nuclear shell model, a theory pivotal to our understanding of the nuclei in atoms. It was developed by Nobel laureate, Maria Goeppert Mayer.

Quantum mechanical effects induced by the building blocks of atomic nuclei, the protons and neutrons, which together make up the nucleus, are explained by the nuclear shell model.