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THE 1938 edition of Hoag's “Electron and Nuclear Bhysics” must be well known to all university teachers of physics, and the new revised edition by Prof. S. A. Korff, an authority on electron and nuclear counters, will, doubtless, be very welcome and valuable. The method of presentation, the arrangement, and to a large extent the content also, of the 1938 edition have been retained. The opportunity has been taken to revise the tables of data in conformity with more recent observations, to make minor revisions and additions to the text, particularly in the nuclear physics section, and to add to or extend the experiments which, it will be remembered, are an important feature of each chapter. Nevertheless, the reader will be somewhat disappointed (particularly so after reading the preface to the new edition, where the impression is given that considerable changes have been made) that so little new material, concerning work done in recent years, appears in the new edition.
Electron and Nuclear Physics
By Prof. J. Barton Hoag. Third edition, revised by Prof. S. A. Korff. Pp. xi + 522. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1948. 27s. 6d.
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WEINTROUB, S. Electron and Nuclear Physics. Nature 164, 508 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164508a0
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