INTRODUCTION

Make him [the reader] laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

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from The Gentleman in the Parlour
by W. Somerset Maugham

• Prologue
• Nuclear Mesons
• Experiment
  • Quasifree Scattering
  • Polarization Observables and Nuclear Responses
  • Scattering
  • Scattering
• Motivation