01931nam a2200289 a 4500991001585059707536030505s enk 000 0 eng d0801868602b12168233-39ule_inst539.7LC QC77853.4.1Nucleus :a trip into the heart of matter /Ray Mackintosh ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ben MottelsonBaltimore, Md. :Johns Hopkins University Press,2001143 p. :ill. (some col.) ;29 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 132) and indexes.Foreword /Ben Mottelson -Introduction: Our world and its infinite variety -1.The size of things: From the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus -2.The discovery of nuclei: How a new world was revealed by radioactivity -3.Particles or waves?: Strange laws at the heart of matter -4.Measuring nuclei: Determining the shape and size of minute objects -5.Strange nuclear material: The contents of a nucleus -6.The nuclear landscape: The variety and abundance of nuclei -7.Applications of nuclear physics: Interactions with everyday life -8.Nuclear architecture: From hydrogen to neutron stars -9.Cosmic furnaces: The stars and the birth of elements -10.Our violent origin: Cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang.Nuclear physics-Popular worksNuclear physics-Research-History-Popular worksNuclear astrophysics-Popular worksMackintosh, Rayauthorhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut736947.b1216823321-09-0605-05-03991001585059707536LE006 53.4.1 MAC12006000089401le006-E32.00-l- 00000.i1250872x05-05-03Nucleus1458093UNISALENTOle00605-05-03ma -engenk01