David Brink contributed significantly to our understanding of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions. These contributions have established him as an original, energetic and resourceful nuclear theorist. His name is associated with fluctuation cross-sections, dipole strength functions, giant dipole oscillations of closed shells, generator coordinate methods for structure and reactions, angular momentum selection rules in ion-ion reactions and adiabatic time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. Particularly admired is his work showing that almost all essential nuclear data can be reproduced with Hartree-Fock theory and a simple effective interaction; equally striking are his studies, pursued with remarkable insight, of the interplay between single-particle motion and between single-particle motion and cluster structure.
Professor David Brink FRS died on 8 March 2021.
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Astronomy and Physics
Nuclear, atomic and molecular physics
