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Nature 400, 209-211 (15 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22204

Charting the shores of nuclear stability

Neil Rowley1

A fascinating challenge in nuclear structure physics is to find the maximum atomic number Z — the number of protons — for which a relatively stable nucleus can exist. The question is, just how many stable elements is it possible to make?

  1. Neil Rowley is at the Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, 23 rue du Loess, F-67037, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
    e-mail: Email: Neil.Rowley@ires.in2p3.fr