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Robert Eugene Marshak (1916 92) devoted much of his life to helping other people carry out scientific research and gather to discuss their work. In addition to his scientific statesmanship, he was an extraordinarily gifted research scientist, and many of his scientific contributions have been prophetic. This book pays homage to his creativity and continuing work, with contributions from many of the people whose lives have been influenced by him.Contents: Impact of Direct Transfer Reactions on Nuclear Structure Studies (R K Bansal & A Kumar) Evidence for Exotics (G Bhamathi) Chiral Morphing (N-P Chang) Cosmological S Matrix (G Chew) The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon (V W Hughes) Constituent Quark Mass in Relation to Current Quark Mass (S Iwao) Mesons and the Structure of Nucleons (W Koepf et al.) The Pain and Joy of a Major Scientific Discovery (R E Marshak) Understanding the Standard Model (R N Mohapatra) Extensions of the Standard Model (R J Oakes) CP Violations in D and B Boson Decays (S Okubo) Remembering Robert Eugene Marshak (J B Platt) A Prophetic Physicist (J Polkinghorne) Atomic Clocks and Tests of Relativity (N F Ramsey) The Relationship between Theory and Experiment in Physics (R G Sachs) Marshak, Kuiper, Adams, and Moore: White Dwarfs and Nuclear Interactions (M P Savedoff) and other papersReadership: High energy physicists.

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