nuclear physics
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“There’s a clear pattern of why and what has happened here. This is not nuclear physics.”
From Los Angeles Times
With her family's support, she returned to complete her degree and later earned an MSc in nuclear physics at the University of the Western Cape, graduating with distinction.
From BBC
The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Bridgewater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker the "father of nuclear physics".
From BBC
While in the Navy, Carter took graduate courses in nuclear physics and served as a submariner on the USS Pomfret.
From Los Angeles Times
Mapping out the entanglement among quarks and gluons inside protons could offer insight into other complex questions in nuclear physics, including how being part of a larger nucleus affects proton properties.
From Science Daily
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