Nuclear Physics

The book describes how field-charges, split into isotopic pairs, can commute and identifies the group of transformations that governs this exchange...

In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, w...

The first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of spin and spearheaded the search for ...

Chapter One offers an overview of the international obligations and cooperation mechanisms concerning nuclear preparedness and response, with a spe...

This book allows the reader to understand the fundamentals of polarization phenomena in a general spin system, showing the polarizations to be indi...

Particle physics is the science that pursues the age-old quest for the innermost structure of matter and the fundamental interactions between its c...

The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasa...

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an En...

Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19t...

Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the end of the century, Professor Stephen ...