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Nuclear optical model

SEP 01, 1959
A conference report: The author of the following account of the conference on the nuclear optical model is professor of physics at Brandeis Uniersity. The meeting was held in March at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.

A. M. Lane, of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, opened his remarks to the International Conference on the Nuclear Optical Model by quoting a US Navy man who was arranging Dr. Lane’s MATS transportation to the conference. “What”, asked the sailor, “is the Navy doing transporting Limey opticians to the States?”

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Kenneth W. Ford, Brandeis University.

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