“…While 96Sr58 has the character of an anharmonic vibrator with the 2~-level at 815keV [1], its odd-neutron neighbour 97Sr59 shows shape coexistence with a spherical ground-state and a deformed band head at 585 keV [2], whereas the next heavier even-even isotopes 9SSr6o and ~~176 exhibit ground-state rotational bands [3,4]. From the systematics of the 2i ~ energies of 145 keV and 129 keV, respectively, together with their lifetimes resulting in quadrupole deformation parameters /~ of 0.32 [3,4] and 0.35 [4], the generally observed increase of deformation towards neutron midshell seemed to be verified also for the Sr isotopes.…”