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Progess in nuclear physics
Nuclsar
Physics
6 (1968)
323-324;
@
North-Holland
PubHshing
Co., Amsterdam
BOOK REVIEWS tc.
0. R. FRISCH (Editor), Progress 1967. vii-297 pages. 84 s.)
in ltuckar
physics,
volume
6 (Pergamon
Press,
London
The present volume of this well-known series maintains the high standard set by the preceding ones. The editor has made a happy choice of the topics presenting the greatest novelty or usefulness at the moment, and secured the collaboration of some of the best specialists for the preparation of the survey articles which compose the volume. For some reason he has not extended his attention to the actual arrangement of the articles, which follow each other in a perfectly haphazard sequence. Here they are: T. R. K. M. H. M. G. J. 0.
F. Johns (Harwell) on isotope separation J. Eden (Cambridge) on nuclear models F. Smith (Cambridge) on nuclear moments and spins B. Steams (Pittsburg\) on mesic atoms E. Duckworth (Hamilton) on nuclear masses > 40 L. Smith (Harwell) on isotope enrichment N. Walton (Harwell) on fission recoil Mattauch and F. Everling (Mainz) on nuclear masses < 40 R. Frisch (Cambridge) and T. H. R. Skyrme (Harwell) on parity
non-conservation.
The articles, while packed with data and references, are rather intended for quick orientation: they do not duplicate the more ponderous expositions of the same topics appearing, for instance, in the Encyclopedia of Physics or in special treatises such as Kopfermann’s Kwnmomente. There is. however, some duplication with articles of much the same scope and style published in other collections: Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science, Reports on progress in physics, Reviews of modern physics, to mention only a few written in English. To these must be added the published proceedings of numerous specialized conferences, which often contain excellent up-to-date reports of topical problems. Moreover, the two newly started series of monographs, Interscience Tracts and Oxford Library of the Physical Sciences, are providing again other surveys of similar character in what I think is a better form: the isolated, handy monograph. One has the uneasy feeling that the production of survey articles is approaching a state of chaos: agreat amount of able, but unto-ordinated effort is being wasted in the a freedom which looks too much like anarchy. name of I don’t know what “freedom”, L. R.
H. HINTENBERGER (Editor), Nuclear masses and their London 8~. 1957. ix-267 pages. 84 s.\
determination
(Pergamon
Press,
This book contains the full proceedings (text of contributions and main points of discussions) of the Conference on nuclear masses held at Mains in July 1956. With regard to the contents, it will suffice to refer the reader to the report of this conference written by H. A. Wapstra for this journal (2(1956/57)286). Although the contributions now collected in book form are highly technical and do not aim (except one or two) at surveying the field, the book will be very useful (and presumably remain so for some time, in spite of the rapid rate of progress) to all workers in nuclear physics. It is true that one looks in vain for the nice table of nuclear masses which one would naively expect from such an array of experts; we are only told how difficult it is to make one. But in the various articles many comparative 323
Physics
6 (1968)
323-324;
@
North-Holland
PubHshing
Co., Amsterdam
BOOK REVIEWS tc.
0. R. FRISCH (Editor), Progress 1967. vii-297 pages. 84 s.)
in ltuckar
physics,
volume
6 (Pergamon
Press,
London
The present volume of this well-known series maintains the high standard set by the preceding ones. The editor has made a happy choice of the topics presenting the greatest novelty or usefulness at the moment, and secured the collaboration of some of the best specialists for the preparation of the survey articles which compose the volume. For some reason he has not extended his attention to the actual arrangement of the articles, which follow each other in a perfectly haphazard sequence. Here they are: T. R. K. M. H. M. G. J. 0.
F. Johns (Harwell) on isotope separation J. Eden (Cambridge) on nuclear models F. Smith (Cambridge) on nuclear moments and spins B. Steams (Pittsburg\) on mesic atoms E. Duckworth (Hamilton) on nuclear masses > 40 L. Smith (Harwell) on isotope enrichment N. Walton (Harwell) on fission recoil Mattauch and F. Everling (Mainz) on nuclear masses < 40 R. Frisch (Cambridge) and T. H. R. Skyrme (Harwell) on parity
non-conservation.
The articles, while packed with data and references, are rather intended for quick orientation: they do not duplicate the more ponderous expositions of the same topics appearing, for instance, in the Encyclopedia of Physics or in special treatises such as Kopfermann’s Kwnmomente. There is. however, some duplication with articles of much the same scope and style published in other collections: Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science, Reports on progress in physics, Reviews of modern physics, to mention only a few written in English. To these must be added the published proceedings of numerous specialized conferences, which often contain excellent up-to-date reports of topical problems. Moreover, the two newly started series of monographs, Interscience Tracts and Oxford Library of the Physical Sciences, are providing again other surveys of similar character in what I think is a better form: the isolated, handy monograph. One has the uneasy feeling that the production of survey articles is approaching a state of chaos: agreat amount of able, but unto-ordinated effort is being wasted in the a freedom which looks too much like anarchy. name of I don’t know what “freedom”, L. R.
H. HINTENBERGER (Editor), Nuclear masses and their London 8~. 1957. ix-267 pages. 84 s.\
determination
(Pergamon
Press,
This book contains the full proceedings (text of contributions and main points of discussions) of the Conference on nuclear masses held at Mains in July 1956. With regard to the contents, it will suffice to refer the reader to the report of this conference written by H. A. Wapstra for this journal (2(1956/57)286). Although the contributions now collected in book form are highly technical and do not aim (except one or two) at surveying the field, the book will be very useful (and presumably remain so for some time, in spite of the rapid rate of progress) to all workers in nuclear physics. It is true that one looks in vain for the nice table of nuclear masses which one would naively expect from such an array of experts; we are only told how difficult it is to make one. But in the various articles many comparative 323