 | Richard F. Casten |
Richard F. Casten, the newly designated D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics, is internationally known for his research in nuclear structure and is a leader in exploring the physics opportunities provided by radioactive nuclear beams.
Casten is also the director of the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL), which houses the world's most powerful stand-alone tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The laboratory focuses on both nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics.
Casten's research in nuclear structure focuses especially on the nature of collectivity and collective modes, the evolution of collectivity with nucleon number, the study of phase/shape transitions in nuclei, the onset of collectivity and deformation, and the p-n interaction. Over three decades, these interests have led to major contributions in the study of the Nilsson model, Coriolis coupling, pairing vibrations, hexadecapole deformations, algebraic models (IBA) and correlations of nuclear observables. Some of his work has challenged long-held theories in the field. His recent work on phonon and multi-phonon states in both spherical and deformed nuclei has revealed the pervasive nature of phonon structure in nuclei and the existence (long doubted) of multi-phonon states.
Casten has collaborated with scientists throughout the world on experiments and theoretical work concerning the structure of the atomic nucleus. His books include "Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective" (1990), which was published as a revised second edition in 2001, and "Algebraic Approaches to Nuclear Structure" (1994). He has also published some 450 articles in scientific publications.
A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Casten earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale in 1964 and 1967, respectively. He was a physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for nearly 25 years before he joined the Yale faculty as professor of physics and director of WNSL in 1995. For two years into his Yale tenure, he continued his long affiliation with Brookhaven as a senior scientist.
Casten has been a guest faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the University of Köln, Germany. He has given talks at more than 100 international conferences.
The Yale physicist served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Panel on Basic Nuclear Data Compilations and is a former chair of the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals.
Casten's honors include the Humboldt Prize (Senior U.S. Scientist Award) in 1983 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, Romania. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Richard Casten is named
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