What is a nuclear physicist?

Question

What is a name of a famous nuclear physicist? or a website with a list of them. also.

what is a nuclear physicist?

Answer 1

Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies the building blocks and interactions of atomic nuclei.

It must not be confused with atomic physics, that studies the combined system of the nucleus and its arrangement of electrons, even if both terms are sometimes used synonymously in standard English.

Particle physics is a field that has evolved out of Nuclear physics and for this reason has been included under the same term in earlier times.

Nuclear power and nuclear bombs are the most commonly known applications of nuclear physics, but the research field is also the basis for a far wider range of less common applications, like e.g. in the medical sector (nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging), in materials engineering (ion implantation) or archaeology (radiocarbon dating).

The history of nuclear physics began with the discovery of the nucleus by Rutherford in 1911. While the work on radioactivity by Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie predates this, an explanation of radioactivity would have to wait for the discovery that the nucleus itself was composed of smaller constituents, the nucleons. Attempts to split the atom led to the discovery of nuclear fission.

Answer 2

a famous nuclear physicist was Robert J. Oppenheimer.

He worked on the creation of the atom bomb.

A nuclear physicist is someone who studies how physics applies to the nuclei of atoms.

Answer 3

a nuclear physicist studies nuclear reactions. these are reactions that involve a change of the nucleus of a particle.

examples are: radioactive decay in which a particle decays to gain a more stable nucleus.

nuclear fusion and fission are another common field studied by them. basically its where atomic nuclei fuse or split into more stable nuclei, which releases energy.

famous nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford started off nuclear physics with his famous gold foil experiment. this lead to the discovery of the nucleus and eventually electron orbits

Becquerel is another famous nuclear physicist who studied nuclear decay rates. A "Becquerel" (Bq) is one decay per second.