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6 - Nuclear Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2021

Steven Weinberg
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University of Texas, Austin
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Atoms were at the center of physicists’ interests in the 1920s. It was largely from the effort to understand atomic properties that modern quantum mechanics emerged in this decade. In the 1930s physicists’ concerns expanded to include the nature of atomic nuclei. The constituents of the nucleus were identified, and a start was made in learning what held them together. And as everyone knows, world history was changed in subsequent decades by the military application of nuclear physics.

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  • Nuclear Physics
  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Foundations of Modern Physics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894845.007
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  • Nuclear Physics
  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Foundations of Modern Physics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894845.007
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  • Nuclear Physics
  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Foundations of Modern Physics
  • Online publication: 22 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894845.007
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