At the extremes of nuclear charge and spin

Acta Physica Polonica B

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1033-1047

  Myers, W D ^a   Swiatecki, W J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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