The nucleus
MAR 01, 1952
The following article is based on the first of six invited papers presented during the symposium on contemporary physics which keynoted the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Institute of Physics in Chicago last October. An audience of three thousand assembled in the Chicago Civic Opera House to hear the addresses, four of which have appeared in recent issues of this journal.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067538
In the twenty–year period since the founding of the American Institute of Physics, nuclear physics has been advancing perhaps as rapidly as any other branch of our science. Twenty years ago the neutron had not yet been discovered, and a favored hypothesis as to the structure of the atomic nucleus was that it consisted of protons and electrons. This very fact may give some idea of the exponential rate of our progress.
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Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago.
© 1952 American Institute of Physics
