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Nuclear Physics Quotes

Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
- Walther Bothe

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
- John Cameron

Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.
- John Cameron

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.
- John Henry Carver

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
- James Cronin

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
- Stephen Greenblatt

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
- Walter Kohn

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
- Andrei Sakharov

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