Abstract
The birth of nuclear physics in the 1920s and its culmination in the 1940s which changed human history forever is reviewed in broad touches. I briefly mention further developments of nuclear physics connecting it to modern astrophysics, high-energy physics, etc.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2050014 |
| Journal | The Physics Educator |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Nobel prize
- Nuclear physics
- history of science
- quantum mechanics