Every age in the history of civilized men was dominated by a specific set of ideas or ideologies. However, Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) must be certainly mentioned as the top of the list. The year 2009 marks the 200 anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the sesquicentennial of the Origin’s publication. Scientists, universities, natural history museums, and other sorts of people, various...

E stablished in October 1958, NASA is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A significant fraction of Computer’s readers are old enough to remember the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first men on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. We have witnessed the space shuttle era and the building of the International Space Station and have watched with keen interest the results of unmanned missions...

On the fiftieth anniversary of Yang-Mills theory, I review the contribution to its understanding by my collaborators and me.

(Work done in collaboration with Prof. C. I. Christov from ULL, USA and dedicated to his 60th birthday anniversary)

We present a microscopic study of halo nuclei, starting from the Paris and Bonn potentials and employing a two-frequency shell model approach. It is found that the core-polarization effect is dramatically suppressed in such nuclei. Consequently the effective interaction for halo nucleons is almost entirely given by the bare G-matrix alone, which presently can be evaluated with a high degree of ...