I am indebted to my advisor Juergen Eichberger for his helpful guidance and to Alexander Zimper for his helpful suggestions and illuminating discussions. I would like to thank Hans Haller, Clemens Puppe, Itzhak Gilboa, Hans Gersbach, Klaus Ritzberger, as well as the participants of the RUD conference in Evanston, of the FUR XI conference in Paris and of the PhD seminar at the University of Heid...

Eminent nuclear experimentalist Felix Hans Boehm passed away on 25 May 2021, a few days before his 97th birthday. His scientific career spanned the second half of 20th century and coincided with evolution experimental physics—from “in-house,” relatively small-scale experiments performed by handful physicists to large-scale efforts at an external facility significant group participants. Those ma...