Radiations Magazine: Spring 2011

Features

Guest Editorial: Bucket Lists

    by Diane Jacobs, Sigma Pi Sigma President

Echos from 2008

    by Tracy M. Schwab

Elegant Connections in Physics:
The Discovery of the Nucleus

    by Dwight E. Neuenschwander

Departments

Letters to the Editor

The Director's Corner

Nuclear Family
    by Gary D. White

Society News

Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter Project Awards

Member Spotlight

Zone 10 Leaders Initiate Physics Outreach Week

Lois Marie Reed Presented with Sigma Pi Sigma Outstanding Service Award

Spotlight on “Hidden Physicists”

2010 Contributors to ΣΠΣ

The Puzzle Corner: We Like Ike, Too

    by Diane Jacobs & Thomas Olsen

Get Involved

Science Festivals

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On the Cover | View Larger Image

From Plato’s five regular solids as “atoms” to modern-day views of the nucleus: Marking 100 years since the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

Photo of the five Platonic solids by Johnson Cameraface (Copyright © 2009, used in accordance with Creative Commons license). Photo of Ernest Rutherford courtesy of the AIP Emilio Segré Visual Archives (used with permission).

Sigma Pi Sigma President
Diane Jacobs, Eastern Michigan University

SPS President
Toni Sauncy, Angelo State University

Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS Director
Gary D. White

Sigma Pi Sigma/SPS Assistant Director
Thomas Olsen