Robert Smolańczuk (born in Olecko, Poland) is a Polish theoretical physicist.
He received his doctorate from the Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies in 1996. He later visited Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Fulbright Fellow between 1998 and 2000.
He predicted in late 1998[1] that a lead-and-krypton collision technique could produce the element oganesson, at that time considered impossible by most scientists involved in heavy-element research. This was experimentally attempted at LBNL in 1999 and appeared to have been successful, but an investigation determined that the data had been fabricated by Victor Ninov.[2] It is now expected that this reaction is unlikely to succeed. Smolańczuk received the Nitchke Award in 2000 for developing a phenomenological model of synthesis of superheavy nuclei.[3] He currently works at the National Centre for Nuclear Research in Otwock, Poland.[4]
References
edit- ^ Smolanczuk, R. (1999). "Production a mechanism of superheavy nuclei in cold fusion reactions". Physical Review C. 59 (5): 2634–2639. Bibcode:1999PhRvC..59.2634S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.59.2634.
- ^ Johnson, George (October 15, 2002). "At Lawrence Berkeley, Physicists Say a Colleague Took Them for a Ride". New York Times.
- ^ Kamiński, Andrzej (December 12, 2000). "Atomowa sesja" (in Polish). Linia Otwocka. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009.
- ^ National Centre for Nuclear research, retrieved 29 September 2011[dead link]
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