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Obituaries

In Memoriam

Victor E. Viola

October 8, 2024

Victor E. Viola, 89, of Golden, Colorado, died June 17, 2024.

Victor E. Viola.
Credit: Courtesy of the Viola family
Victor E. Viola

“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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