The development of Nuclear Physics, and its closely allied field, Particle Physics, has been a major intellectual achievement of the twentieth century. The atomic nucleus has revealed totally unexpected phenomena which the physicists of the preceding centuries had never encountered. Never before had a field of science so thoroughly captured the public's attention with a mixture of fascination and dread. The atomic nucleus has been and continues to be a laboratory where newly discovered forces and symmetries of nature are revealed. This series of lectures will explore the scientific and social/political issues that the atomic nucleus has forced us to confront over the past century, and into the next century.
 

	The proton's electromagnetic structure.

     Photocredits - American Institute of Physics, University of Frankfurt, Jefferson Laboratory
All lectures will be on Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM in the large lecture hall of the Physical Sciences Building, PSB 158. Lectures are free and open to the Public. Metered parking is available
adjacent to the Physical Sciences Building in Parking Lot B.
 

Speaker            Date                    Lecture

Konrad  Aniol    October 25, 2000        The Discovery of Radioactivity - A hint of new forces.

Martin Epstein    November 8, 2000      The Race for Nuclear Weapons - Why Germany did
                                                              not develop the bomb.

Konrad Aniol    November 29, 2000      The Downfall of the old Symmetries - Discovering new
                                                              Symmetries
 

Contact the Physics and Astronomy Department ( 323-343-2100,physics@calstatela.edu) for more information.