Robert Smolańczuk
Robert Smolańczuk born in Olecko Polish physicist theorist.
Received doctorate from Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in 1996. As a Fulbright Fellow visited 1998-2000 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Predicted that a lead-and-krypton collision technique could produce the element 118 Ununoctium, at that time considered impossible by most of the scientists involved in heavy-element research. [1]
Received in 2000 the Nitchke Award for developing a phenomenological model of synthesis of the heaviest nuclei. [2]
Works at the National Centre for Nuclear research in Otwock.
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