Tracy M. Sonneborn Lecture
"All Explosions Great and Small"

Victor E. Viola, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington
Tuesday, December 5, 2000, Whittenberger Auditorium

Victor Viola is the recipient of the 2000 Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, initiated in 1985 by the Dean of the Faculties Office to honor an IU professor who has achieved special distinction as a teacher and as a scholar or artist. Viola has long been established as one of the world’s leading nuclear chemists. His studies of nuclear reaction dynamics have continually broken new ground, and one of his special interests is the connection between nuclear phenomena and astrophysics. In his lecture he compares the explosion of a supernova with the explosion of atomic nuclei into fragments in a particle accelerator.

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