I am delighted to announce that the 2022 EPS Lise Meitner prize has been awarded to Prof Phil Walker from the University of Surrey for his seminal contributions to the understanding of long-lived nuclear excited “isomeric” states and the factors that determine their half-lives, that range from nanoseconds to years. More details about the award can be seen on the EPS website here and on the University of Surrey website here.

Congratulations Phil, very well deserved.

Alison Bruce
Chair EPS nuclear physics division

The HIL Annual Report 2021 has been published.

As every year, the Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw presented its achievements of a last year. The publication was edited by: Marzena Wolińska-Cichocka, Nicolas Keelley, Michalina Komorowska and Justyna Samorajczyk-Pyśk.

The report is available on the Laboratory website (in the section: Reports and publications.).

In the Physics Today there is an interesting article:

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