Ingo Sick (28 May 1939 — 30 May 2021) was a Swiss experimental nuclear physicist.
Sick earned his PhD in 1968 at the
University of Basel
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. In 1983, he became an ''
ausserordentlicher Professor
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'' (professor without chair) for Experimental Physics at Basel. In 1993, he succeeded Eugene Baumgartner and became an ''
ordentlicher Professor
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''. In 2004 he retired as an emeritus professor. He worked primarily on electron scattering from atomic nuclei and nucleons.
In 1987 he received with
Bernard Frois the
Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics
The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $10,000 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memor ...
.
Sick died on 30 May 2021 from stomach cancer, two days after his 82nd birthday.
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References
Selected works
*with Donnelly ''Elastic magnetic electron scattering from nuclei'', Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.56, 1984, pp. 461–566
*with Vijay Pandharipande, De Witt Huberts ''Independent particle motion and correlations in Fermi systems'', Reviews of Modern Physics 1997, pp. 981–991
*''Radial wave functions for valence nucleons'', Comments on nuclear and particle physics, 1980, pp. 55–6
abstractSick ''Elastic electron scattering from light nuclei'', 2002
1939 births
2021 deaths
Swiss nuclear physicists
University of Basel alumni
Deaths from stomach cancer
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