Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Biography

Robert Zurmuhle obtained his PhD in 1960 from the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He left Zürich in 1961 for the University of Pennsylvania, initially for a two year stint in postdoctoral studies, then in 1963 he accepted Penn's offer to remain there as professor until 1997 when he retired. He now lives in Lucerne, Switzerland. He has published around 150 papers covering a wide range of topics in nuclear physics including gamma-ray capture reactions, particle gamma-ray double and triple angular correlation studies with light and heavy ions, accelerator mass spectroscopy and also on innovative developments of nuclear instrumention in reputed journals.

Research Interest

Nuclear Physics