Approach Quote by James Rainwater

The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data,…

— Maria Goeppert-Mayer

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

— James Cronin

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly…

— John Hull

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

— Walter Kohn

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

— Lise Meitner

Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine…

— Stanislaw Ulam

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find…

— Robert Jay Lifton

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic…

— John Henry Carver

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was…

— Andrei Sakharov

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions…

— Taylor Wilson

In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based…

— Emilio G. Segre

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a…

— Steven Weinberg