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Mark Anthony Riley is a British nuclear physicist. He is known for his work in
gamma spectroscopy Gamma-ray spectroscopy is the ''qualitative'' study of the energy spectra of gamma-ray sources, such as in the nuclear industry, geochemical investigation, and astrophysics. Gamma-ray spectrometry, on the other hand, is the method used to acqu ...
. Riley earned his bachelor's degree in physics and his doctorate in nuclear physics at the
University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a Public university, public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University (United Kingdom), Victoria University, it received Ro ...
. He completed postdoctoral research at the
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,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is sponsored by the United Sta ...
, and the
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and held the SERC Advanced Fellowship at the University of Liverpool before joining the faculty of
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...
in 1990. In 2000, Riley was elected a fellow of the
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, "for his many pioneering contributions to the exploration of atomic nuclei at high angular momentum values." The following year, Riley was appointed Raymond K. Sheline Professor of Physics in 2001, and in 2014 was named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor at
Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ...
. He became interim dean of Florida State University's Graduate School in August 2017, and was formally elevated to the deanship in April 2018. An invited
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comment to a special
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Focus issue celebrating the 40 year anniversary of the 1975
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to
Aage Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Roy Mottelson and James Rainwater "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and p ...
, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo Rainwater edited by Jerzy Dudek, outlines selected highlights from experimental investigations at the
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, Denmark, and
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, UK, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of which have continued at other national laboratories in Europe and the US to the present day. A 2022
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article in Nuclear Physics News, co-authored with Ramon Wyss, commemorated the 50 year anniversary of the discovery of the 'backbending', or 'rotational alignment', effect in
nuclear structure Understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus is one of the central challenges in nuclear physics. Models The cluster model The cluster model describes the nucleus as a molecule-like collection of proton-neutron groups (e.g., alpha particl ...
physics. Riley produced, with Akis Pipidis, a pedagogical movie illustrating a mechanical analogue of this phenomenon.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Riley, Mark Anthony Fellows of the American Physical Society British university and college faculty deans British nuclear physicists Living people 20th-century British physicists 21st-century British physicists Alumni of the University of Liverpool Florida State University faculty British expatriate academics in the United States 1959 births