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 Sven Gösta Nilsson (January 14,

1927, Kristianstad – April 24, 1979, Lund) was a Swedish theoretical physicist at

the Lund Institute of

Technology. Nilsson's father was a preacher. As an undergraduate

engineering student, he spent a year at Occidental College in California. He

obtained a Master of Science in engineering physics at

the Royal Institute of

Technology in Stockholm. Influenced by Tommy

Lauritsen and Torsten Gustafson, Nilsson decided to switch paths from

engineering to physics, and in 1950 he was admitted to postgraduate studies in

Lund with Gustafson as his supervisor. After early work with Lauritsen on excited states in Li, Nilsson became

interested in evidence that heavy nuclei could be deformed into ellipsoidal rather than spherical shapes. Rotational

bands had been discovered in 1953, an observation that was incompatible with a

spherically symmetric shape. Nilsson set out to produce a model for the

structure of deformed nuclei, building on work by Maria Goeppert-Mayer that

had been published in 1950, as well as work by Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson at the Institute for Theoretical Physics

(later the Niels Bohr Institute). His

research, in collaboration with Bohr and Mottelson, led to the so-called Nilsson model and a 1955 doctoral thesis, "On some

properties of nuclear states." Nilsson's main innovations were the

introduction of a method for modeling the flat-bottomed shape of the nuclear

potential, as well as formulating a model that made calculations practical, and

exploiting the digital computing technology of the day. Nilsson and Mottelson

embarked on a comprehensive program of comparing nuclear properties with the

predictions of the deformed shell model. The Nilsson model was successful in

explaining the spins and magnetic moments of

nuclei far from closed shells, problems

which would have been intractable with the spherical shell model. In many

cases, a disagreement between theory and experiment led to the discovery that

the experimental results had been mistaken. Starting in 1963, he was a

professor of mathematical physics at the two-year-old Lund University of

Technology, helping to build its research programs. In 1974 he was elected to

membership in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was an active

environmentalist and frequent author of newspaper articles. Nilsson is Lund.

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