{"id":197278,"date":"2024-10-09T03:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/two-physicists-discovered-special-properties-of-stable-atoms-with-magic-numbers-of-protons-and-neutrons-75-years-ago"},"modified":"2024-10-09T03:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:41:57","slug":"two-physicists-discovered-special-properties-of-stable-atoms-with-magic-numbers-of-protons-and-neutrons-75-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/two-physicists-discovered-special-properties-of-stable-atoms-with-magic-numbers-of-protons-and-neutrons-75-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Two physicists discovered special properties of stable atoms with \u2018magic numbers\u2019 of protons and neutrons 75 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-physicists-discovered-special-properties-of-stable-atoms-with-magic-numbers-of-protons-and-neutrons-75-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei\u2014the center part of atoms, which make up all matter\u2014were more stable than others. These nuclei had specific numbers of protons or neutrons, or magic numbers, as physicist Eugene Wigner called them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei\u2014the center part of atoms, which make up all matter\u2014were more stable than others. These nuclei had specific numbers of protons or neutrons, or magic numbers, as physicist Eugene Wigner called them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}