Distribution Quote by James Rainwater

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 the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there…

— John Henry Carver

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected…

— Walther Bothe

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had…

— Walter Kohn

Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering…

— Clifford Shull

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

— Werner Heisenberg

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a…

— James Rainwater

With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a…

— Max von Laue

The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical…

— Rosalind Franklin

“The discovery of the neutron was a crucial step in understanding nuclei, including radioactive ones. For example, beta decays are the transformation within a…

— Brian R. Martin

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

— Richard P. Feynman

“The theoretical determination of the fine structure constant is certainly the most important of the unsolved problems of modern physics.”

— Wolfgang Pauli