Sentence examples for nuclear shells from inspiring English sources

Flowers developed the algebra to describe the various nuclear shells.

And just as elements with full electron shells are inert, nuclei with full nuclear shells tend to be stable.

Like the electrons buzzing around in their orbital shells, the protons and neutrons in the nucleus pile into distinct nuclear shells.

Theorists have predicted, however, that this trend toward instability would be reversed as additional protons and neutrons fill out nuclear shells.

In 1963, she won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on the structure of nuclear shells.

The US removed around 1,300 nuclear shells from Europe and reportedly dismantled its last shells by 2003.

The last woman to win was Maria Goeppert Mayer who won the prize in 1963 (along with J Hans D Jensen and Eugene Wigner) for her work on nuclear shell structure.

Conservatives were screeching, naturally, that the Clinton trip would provide propaganda cover to the North Koreans to continue their nuclear shell game.

When either the protons or neutrons complete a nuclear shell (that is, arrive at certain fixed values), the nucleus is exceptionally stable; the number of protons or neutrons required to complete a shell is called a magic number.

The Wood Saxon potential is a reasonable potential for nuclear shell model and hence attracts lots of attention in nuclear physics.

The fundamental assumption in a nuclear shell model is the independence of nucleon motions (free particles) regardless of the existence of strong attractive force between the nucleons.