Victor E. Viola, 89, of Golden, Colorado, died June 17, 2024.
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Victor E. Viola, 89, of Golden, Colorado, died June 17, 2024.
“Vic, a former student of Glenn Seaborg, is best known for his work on nuclear fission dynamics, where he developed the Viola systematics to describe the kinetic energy of fission fragments. Vic and collaborators also discovered collisions between two heavy nuclei in which their relative kinetic energy is damped but, because of large angular momentum, they do not fuse but transiently form a femtometer-scale dinuclear complex, which then reseparates after exchanging charge and mass. By inducing multifragmentation of a nucleus with high-energy projectiles, his group provided the best evidence of a nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, a topic relevant to supernovae.”—Romualdo T. deSouza, Sherry J. Yennello, and Lee G. Sobotka, colleagues
Most recent title: Distinguished professor emeritus, Indiana University Bloomington
Education: AB, chemistry, University of Kansas, 1957; PhD, chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1961
Survivors: Children, Charley Viola, Randy Viola, and Gina Viola Brown; six grandchildren
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