Present concepts of nuclear structure may undergo some revision in the light of recent experiments performed at Stanford University and reported in the November 15th Physical Review. According to R. Hofstadter, H. R. Fechter, and J. A. McIntyre, authors of the paper, “the charge distribution in heavy nuclei tentatively suggested by this work differs rather seriously” from the model usually accepted.

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