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109
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43518
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to our understanding of singleparticle and collective motion in nuclei, especially at high spins, and for his studies of reflectionasymmetric deformations in nuclei

Overview

Witold Nazarewicz is a researcher primarily affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work is concentrated in the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions to Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Radiation, Aerospace Engineering, and Spectroscopy.

Themes central to their research include Nuclear physics research studies, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Astronomical and nuclear sciences, Nuclear Physics and Applications, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies.

Among their frequent collaborators are P.-G. Reinhard, Kyle Godbey, R. F. García Ruíz, J. Dobaczewski, and X. F. Yang. Their publications often appear in well-known scientific venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), Physical review. C, Physical Review Letters, Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics, and UNC Libraries.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Witold Nazarewicz include:

  • Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics, 2022, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions, 2023, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
  • Measurement and microscopic description of odd-even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes, 2020, Nature Physics
  • Information Content of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Pb208, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Quantified limits of the nuclear landscape, 2020, Physical review. C

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics from the American Physical Society in 2012, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, and Fellowship of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1994, the latter accompanied by a citation for contribution to understanding nuclear structure and deformation phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Microscopic study of the high-spin behaviour in selected A ~= 80 nuclei

    W. Nazarewicz;J. Dudek;R. Bengtsson;T. Bengtsson

  • Single-particle energies, wave functions, quadrupole moments and g-factors in an axially deformed woods-saxon potential with applications to the two-centre-type nuclear problems

    S. Cwiok;J. Dudek;W. Nazarewicz;J. Skalski

  • Coexistence in even-mass nuclei

    J.L Wood;K Heyde;W Nazarewicz;W Nazarewicz;M Huyse

  • Intrinsic reflection asymmetry in atomic nuclei

    P. A. Butler;W. Nazarewicz

  • Mean-field description of ground-state properties of drip-line nuclei: Pairing and continuum effects

    J. Dobaczewski;W. Nazarewicz;T. R. Werner;J. F. Berger

  • Nuclear Energy Density Optimization

    M. Kortelainen;M. Kortelainen;T. Lesinski;T. Lesinski;J. Moré;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz

  • The limits of the nuclear landscape

    Jochen Erler;Noah Birge;Markus Kortelainen;Markus Kortelainen;Markus Kortelainen;Witold Nazarewicz;Witold Nazarewicz;Witold Nazarewicz

  • Shell structure of the superheavy elements

    Stefan Cwiok;Stefan Cwiok;Jacek Dobaczewski;Jacek Dobaczewski;Paul-Henri Heenen;Piotr Magierski

  • Nuclear shell structure at particle drip lines

    J. Dobaczewski;J. Dobaczewski;I. Hamamoto;I. Hamamoto;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;J. A. Sheikh;J. A. Sheikh

  • Structure of superdeformed bands in the A ≈ 150 mass region

    W. Nazarewicz;R. Wyss;A. Johnson

  • Accurate nuclear radii and binding energies from a chiral interaction

    A. Ekstrom;A. Ekstrom;G. R. Jansen;G. R. Jansen;K. A. Wendt;K. A. Wendt;G. Hagen;G. Hagen

  • Nuclear energy density optimization: Large deformations

    M. Kortelainen;M. Kortelainen;J. McDonnell;J. McDonnell;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;P.-G. Reinhard

  • Shape coexistence and the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction

    P.-G. Reinhard;D. J. Dean;D. J. Dean;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;J. Dobaczewski;J. Dobaczewski;J. Dobaczewski

  • Equilibrium deformations and excitation energies of single-quasiproton band heads of rare-earth nuclei

    W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;M.A. Riley;M.A. Riley;J.D. Garrett;J.D. Garrett

  • Analysis of octupole instability in medium-mass and heavy nuclei

    W Nazarewicz;P Olanders;[No Value] Ragnarsson;J Dudek

  • Highly deformed intruder bands in the A≈130 mass region

    R. Wyss;J. Nyberg;A. Johnson;R. Bengtsson

  • Unexpectedly large charge radii of neutron-rich calcium isotopes

    R.F. Garcia Ruiz;M.L. Bissell;M.L. Bissell;Klaus Blaum;A. Ekström;A. Ekström

  • Information content of a new observable: The case of the nuclear neutron skin

    P.-G. Reinhard;Witold Nazarewicz

  • Systematic study of deformed nuclei at the drip lines and beyond

    M. V. Stoitsov;J. Dobaczewski;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;W. Nazarewicz;S. Pittel

  • Abundance and systematics of nuclear superdeformed states; relation to the pseudospin and pseudo-SU(3) symmetries.

    J. Dudek;W. Nazarewicz;Z. Szymanski;G. A. Leander

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul-Gerhard Reinhard
Paul-Gerhard Reinhard University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Stefan M. Wild
Stefan M. Wild Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Schwerdtfeger
Peter Schwerdtfeger Massey University
George F. Bertsch
George F. Bertsch University of Washington
Jorge J. Moré
Jorge J. Moré Argonne National Laboratory

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