The article, based on unpublished sources from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, shows main milestones life and scientific achievements Joseph Afroimovich Sterin, who headed Department Pharmacology at Leningrad Pharmaceutical Institute 1946 to 1951 (currently Petersburg Chemical University). I.A. Sterin began his activity in 1926 did not stop it even during Great Patriotic War. From ...

30 years ago already, the then nuclear research center in Karlsruhe publicized experimentally determined dimensions and shapes of various nuclei. Apart from the obvious spherical shape, cylindrical and elliptical nuclei had also been found. Such experimental results have to be compared with calculations. Not only the number of p+ and n± involved, but also spin, direction of rotation, and nuclea...