Vittorio Somà

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Vittorio Somà is a researcher at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) and the University of Paris-Saclay. He received his PhD at the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Before joining the CEA, he held a position at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. His research activities focus on theoretical nuclear physics and in particular on many-body and computational techniques for studying atomic nuclei.


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Exposing Nuclear Magic

Calculations show how the mysterious “magic numbers” that stabilize nuclear structures emerge naturally from nuclear forces—once these are described with appropriate spatial resolution. Read More »