Sophia Heinz

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Sophia Heinz is an experimental nuclear physicist. She is a staff scientist at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, an associate professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen, and a lecturer at Philipps University of Marburg, all in Germany. Her research focus is fusion and deep-inelastic transfer reactions in heavy-ion collisions with stable and radioactive projectile beams, aiming at the synthesis and study of new heavy and superheavy nuclides.


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A Route Toward the Island of Stability

Scientists have synthesized an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium using a novel fusion reaction. The result paves the way for the discovery of new chemical elements. Read More »