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Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics

Celebrating a century of nuclear isomers

20 Apr 2021
Taken from the April 2021 issue of Physics World.

One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in medical physics and beyond

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It’s the late 1990s deep inside an underground data room at the Argonne National Laboratory near C

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Philip Walker is emeritus professor in the Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, e-mail p.walker@surrey.ac.uk and Zsolt Podolyák is professor of physics, also at Surrey, e-mail z.podolyak@surrey.ac.uk
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