Abstract

Many nuclear models have been put forward since 1932. Among them the collective model proposed by Aage Niels Bohr and Ben Roy Mottelson and the nuclear shell model proposed by Maria Goeppert Mayer and Johannes Hans D Jensen are the two most successful models. A number of experimental facts like the existence of magic numbers compiled by Maria Mayer led to the discovery of the nuclear shell model. The addition of a nuclear spin-orbit coupling force to the mean field of the nucleons successfully predicted the nuclear magic numbers and many other properties of nuclei.

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