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The physics of warm rotation at high spin in the many-body atomic nucleus will be briefly reviewed with the attempt of providing a historical perspective. This fascinating research topic, investigated in past decades by various research groups in Europe and the US, was greatly inspired by the seminal work carried out at the NBI, with Bent Herskind being the central figure. Bent had unique vision for experimental techniques and analysis methods. He contributed to the birth of Compton-suppressed Ge arrays, and his pioneering multi-dimensional γ-coincidence approaches and statistical data treatment were instrumental in investigating the properties of rotational motion at high excitation energy and chaotic phenomena, also associated with nuclear superdeformation. Perspectives in nuclear structure investigations inspired by Bent legacy will be also briefly discussed.
