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Nicholas Tsoulfanidis—ANS member since 1969
We welcome ANS members who have careered in the community to submit their own Nuclear Legacy stories, so that the personal history of nuclear power can be captured. For information on submitting your stories, contact nucnews@ans.org.
As an undergraduate I studied physics at the University of Athens. I entered the university in 1955 after successfully passing a national exam (came up fourth in a field of about 700 candidates). Upon graduation and finishing my mandatory two-year military service, the plan was to teach physics either in a public high school or as a tutor for a private for-profit institution, preparing high school students for the national exam.
Alan B. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 74-83
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2645
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Differential neutron elastic-scattering cross sections of 197Au are measured from [approximately equal to]4.5 to 10.0 MeV at incident-neutron energy intervals of [approximately equal to]0.5 MeV. These results are combined with previous lower-energy work by the author and associates to form a neutron-scattering database extending from [approximately equal to]0.3 to 10.0 MeV. A few elastic-scattering distributions and total cross sections from the literature are added to it, and the composite is interpreted in terms of optical-statistical, dispersion, and coupled-channels models. The results are compared with models in the literature and with relevant portions of the ENDF/B-VI nuclear data file. A collective rotational model for the prediction of neutron interactions in this mass-energy region is suggested.
