TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackintosh,Ray
TI  - Nucleus : :  a trip into the heart of matter / 
SN  - 142140351X : HRD
AV  - QC798   .N83 2011
U1  - 539.7 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore, Md. : 
PB  -  Johns Hopkins University Press, 
KW  - Nuclear physics
KW  -  Popular works
KW  -  Research
KW  -  History
KW  - Nuclear astrophysics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 132) and indexes; Introduction : our world and its infinite variety -- The size of things : from the immensity of space to the invisible world of the nucleus -- The discovery of nuclei : how a new world was revealed by radioactivity -- Particles or waves? : strange laws at the heart of matter -- Measuring nuclei : determining the shape and size of minute objects -- Strange nuclear material : the contents of a nucleus -- The nuclear landscape : the variety and abundance of nuclei -- Applications of nuclear physics : interactions with everyday life -- Nuclear architecture : from hydrogen to neutron stars -- Cosmic furnaces : the stars and the birth of elements -- Our violent origin : cosmology and the nuclear processes in the Big Bang
ER  -