Biography:Richard F. Casten
Richard F. Casten | |
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| Born | November 1, 1941 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross (AB) Yale University (MS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Niels Bohr Institute Los Alamos National Laboratory Brookhaven National Laboratory Yale University |
| Thesis | Collective nuclear structure studies in the osmium nuclei (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. Allan Bromley |
Richard Francis Xavier Casten (born November 1, 1941) is an American nuclear physicist who serves as the D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics at Yale University.[1] He is known for Casten's triangle, introduced in 1981.[2]
Biography
Casten graduated from secondary school at Friends Seminary in Manhattan.[3] He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was influenced by Edward Francis Kennedy (1932–2017).[4][5] At Yale University's physics department, Casten graduated in 1964 with an M.S. and in 1967 with a Ph.D.[1] His thesis entitled Collective nuclear structure studies in the osmium nuclei was supervised by D. Allan Bromley and Jack S. Greenberg (1927–2005).[6][7] Casten's thesis was the first based upon research done with Yale's MP-1 tandem accelerator.[8][9]
As a postdoc Casten was a research fellow from 1967 to 1969 at Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute and from 1969 to 1971 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 1971 to 1997 he worked in Brookhaven National Laboratory's Nuclear Structure Group, being promoted from assistant physicist to physicist and then to Senior Scientist in 1981. At Yale University he was a full professor from 1995 to 2008 and the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics from 2008 to 2015, when he retired as professor emeritus.[1][10] From 1995 to 2008 he was also the director of Yale's Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL).[8] In the summer of 2011, WNSL's accelerator was shut down.[11]
Casten has been an associate editor for Physical Review C for experimental nuclear structure. He held visiting positions at the Institut Laue–Langevin, at the University of Cologne's Institute for Nuclear Physics, at the CERN/ISOLDE facility,[8] and at Stony Brook University.[12] He chaired from 2003 to 2005 the United States Department of Energy's Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC), in 2008 the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP), and from 2009 to 2012 the FRIB Science Advisory Committee.[8]
He was elected in 1981 a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)[13] and in 1987 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[14] In 1983 he received a Humboldt Award for Senior US Scientists. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Bucharest and the University of Surrey.[8]
In 2009 he received the Mentoring Award from the Nuclear Physics Section of the APS.[15] In 2011 he received the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.[8]
Selected publications
Articles
- Warner, D. D.; Casten, R. F. (1983). "Predictions of the interacting boson approximation in a consistent Q framework". Physical Review C 28 (4): 1798–1806. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.28.1798. Bibcode: 1983PhRvC..28.1798W.
- Casten, R.F.; von Brentano, P. (1985). "An extensive region of O(6)-like nuclei near A = 130". Physics Letters B 152 (1–2): 22–28. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(85)91131-1. Bibcode: 1985PhLB..152...22C.
- Casten, R.F. (1985). "NpNn systematics in heavy nuclei". Nuclear Physics A 443 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(85)90318-5. Bibcode: 1985NuPhA.443....1C.
- Casten, R. F.; Warner, D. D. (1988). "The interacting boson approximation". Reviews of Modern Physics 60 (2): 389–469. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.60.389. Bibcode: 1988RvMP...60..389C.
- Motobayashi, T.; Ikeda, Y.; Ieki, K.; Inoue, M.; Iwasa, N.; Kikuchi, T.; Casten, R. F. (1995). "Large deformation of the very neutron-rich nucleus 32Mg from intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation". Physics Letters B 346 (1–2): 9–14. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00012-A. Bibcode: 1995PhLB..346....9M. (over 950 citations)
- Casten, R. F.; Zamfir, N. V. (2001). "Empirical Realization of a Critical Point Description in Atomic Nuclei". Physical Review Letters 87 (5): 052503. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.052503. PMID 11497765. Bibcode: 2001PhRvL..87e2503C.
- Casten, R. F.; Zamfir, N. V. (2000). "Evidence for a Possible E(5) Symmetry in 134Ba". Physical Review Letters 85 (17): 3584–3586. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3584. PMID 11030956. Bibcode: 2000PhRvL..85.3584C.
- Casten, R. F. (2006). "Shape phase transitions and critical-point phenomena in atomic nuclei". Nature Physics 2 (12): 811–820. doi:10.1038/nphys451. Bibcode: 2006NatPh...2..811C.
- Cejnar, Pavel; Jolie, Jan; Casten, Richard F. (2010). "Quantum phase transitions in the shapes of atomic nuclei". Reviews of Modern Physics 82 (3): 2155–2212. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.82.2155. Bibcode: 2010RvMP...82.2155C.
Books
- Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective. Oxford Studies in Nuclear Physics, 23. Oxford University Press. 1990.[16] Casten, R.; Casten, Richard F. (2000). 2nd edition. ISBN 0-19-850724-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=WgKTQoX13MUC.
- as editor: Algebraic approaches to nuclear structure: interacting boson and fermion models. Contemporary Concepts in Physics, volume 6 (1st ed.). CRC Press. 1993. ISBN 978-3718605385. Castenholz, A. (2020). e-book. ISBN 9781000159462. https://books.google.com/books?id=BSYAEAAAQBAJ.[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "R. Casten, Biography". https://history.aip.org/phn/11502018.html.
- ↑ Iachello, F; Arima, A. (2006-11-02). The Interacting Boson Model. pp. 81–84. ISBN 978-0-521-30282-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=PXv_SRqDG_IC&pg=PA81.
- ↑ "Interview of Richard Casten by David Zierler on June 25, 2020". 22 January 2022. https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/46761.
- ↑ Llorens, Cecile Rivera (Summer 2011). "Rick Casten '63 Earns Top Physics Prize". College of the Holy Cross Magazine 45 (3). https://magazine.holycross.edu/issue_45_3/45_3_alumni_spotlights/45_3_Casten.
- ↑ Edward Kennedy 1932–2017. January 2017. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/telegram/name/edward-kennedy-obituary?id=15942422.
- ↑ "Richard Francis Xavier Casten". https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=148429.
- ↑ Gai, Moshe; Hirshfield, Jay L.; Sandweiss, Jack (October 2005). "Obituary. Jack Sam Greenberg". Physics Today 58 (10): 99–100. doi:10.1063/1.2138436.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "2011 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient, Richard F. Casten". https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Casten&first_nm=Richard&year=2011.
- ↑ Wegner, H. E.; Thieberger, P. (1977). "North-American MP tandem accelerators". Revue de Physique Appliquée 12 (10): 1291–1301. doi:10.1051/rphysap:0197700120100129100. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46155731.
- ↑ "Rick Casten retires, July 2015". Physics News, Yale University: p. 20. Fall 2015. https://physics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YalePhysics2015.pdf.
- ↑ "The New Yale Wright Laboratory". Physic News, Yale University: pp. 11–13. Fall 2015. https://physics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/YalePhysics2015.pdf.
- ↑ "Richard Casten is named D. Allan Bromley Professor". Yale Bulletin & Calendar 34 (21). March 3, 2006. http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v34.n21/story8.html.
- ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1981&unit_id=Brookhaven+National+Laboratory. (search on year=1981 and institution=Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- ↑ "Historic Fellows Listing". https://www.aaas.org/fellows/historic. (search on last name "Casten")
- ↑ "Richard Casten (D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics) was recently presented with the 2009 Mentoring Award by the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society". https://physics.yale.edu/news/richard-casten-d-allan-bromley-professor-physics-was-recently-presented-2009-mentoring-award.
- ↑ Moszkowski, Steven (1991). "Review of Nuclear Structure from a Simple Perspective by Richard F. Casten". Physics Today 44 (11): 91–92. doi:10.1063/1.2810324. Bibcode: 1991PhT....44k..91C.
- ↑ Casten, R. F. (January 1993). Algebraic approaches to nuclear structure: Interacting boson and fermion models (Abstract). https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6546239-algebraic-approaches-nuclear-structure-interacting-boson-fermion-models.
External links
- "Richard Casten, Ph.D. — D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics". 2 March 2018. https://wlab.yale.edu/people/richard-casten.
- "Richard Casten, D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus of Physics". https://physics.yale.edu/people/richard-casten.
- "2009 NSCL User Workshop: Rick Casten, Yale". nsclmedia. August 13, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYWDPV0GLU.
- "R.F. Casten @CERN - Lecture 1". Razvan Lica. July 29, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbpHwyD1-zk.
- "R.F. Casten @CERN - Lecture 2". Razvan Lica. July 29, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj3DTcpcc5k.
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