From The Washington Post yesterday —
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"Ben Roy Mottelson, an American-born physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking explanation of the structure and behavior of the atomic nucleus, including its shape, its rotations and its oscillations, died May 13. He was 95. . . . . Knowledge of nuclear structure is regarded as vital in weapons research, power generation and in solving the problems of astrophysics and the history of the universe. In what is still regarded as one of the crowning achievements of nuclear physics, Dr. Mottelson helped show, using arguments and techniques from quantum theory, how each individual constituent of the nucleus — each proton and each neutron — exerted an effect on the properties and character of the nucleus as a whole. And vice versa." . . . . — By Martin Weil, May 21, 2022, at 4:04 p.m. EDT |
From this journal on Friday the 13th of May —
"In magic, the will unites with the intellect in an
impassioned desire for supersensible knowledge.
This is the intellectual, aggressive, and scientific
temperament trying to extend its field of consciousness
[…] (Underhill 84; see also 178ff.)"
The reference above is to Underhill, Evelyn:
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development
of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness.
New York: Dutton, 1911.