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Typically my chemist colleagues re act with evident surprise when they are peripherally exposed to the burgeoning complexities and sophistications of cur rent nuclear spectroscopy. The length and density of this well-edited review attest this development. The topics covered constitute a field so broad that investigators in particular subspecialties have an increasingly difficult task merely in correlating their results with relevant researches in associated fields. A considerable proliferation of tech niques has occurred; precision in energy determination, in lifetime measurement, in nuclear state and transition char acterization has been rapidly and ex tensively improved. With each exten sion of experimental capability has ap peared, of course, a matching com plexity in the nuclear structure. Withal, the theorists are bringing at least short range order in the maze of data. Such indications of logical struc ture and predictability, e.g. within a given system of nuclear levels, or in the behavior of a type of nuclear re action, are a sufficient inspiration and guide to warrant improved experimen tation, though it seems clear that no theoretical view of nuclear structure will be whole that does not build on the developments in high energy "par ticle" physics. Volume A is a compendium of the techniques of charged particle spectros copy (nuclear reaction products, radio active decay), gamma ray and neutron spectroscopy, with chapters on photonuclear reactions, short lifetime meas urements, and determination of nuclear moments. Each main topic is covered by several experts active in the field, with the emphasis on the nuclear phys ics goals and apparatus functional prin ciples rather than on the lab cook book approach. (Volume Β covers the theo retical analysis of the data and some models of nuclear structure currently discussed.) This is no guide to the uninitiate. The writing generally is tight, in prac tice presupposing a familiarity with basic theory, though one can usually ferret out the necessary definitions. For one seeking active entrance to an unfamiliar field its sections should be read with a good nuclear theory text and the well annotated reference jour nals handy. Particularly the sections
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on beta and gamma spectroscopy do not attempt to parallel K. Siegbahn's "Beta and Gamma Spectroscopy" in depth. As a reference for the investigator it is excellent in its coverage of topics in so many fields other than one is engaged in. For workers in specific fields it may appear too condensed, requiring too frequent reference to the journals to resolve the details of a description, though this is of course, the curse of all such attempts at breadth. To the reviewer, whose activities are in beta spectroscopy, the sections on charged particle spectroscopy by W. Buechner and on neutron spectroscopy by L. Bollinger, L. Cranberg, and L. Rosen were particularly meaty and stimulat ing. Author and subject indexes seem appropriately complete.
Automatic Chemical Analysis. An nals of New York Academy of Sci ences. Vol. 87, Art. 2, pages 600661. Franklin N. Furness, Manag ing Editor, New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd St., New York 21, N. Y. I960. 89.00. Reviewed by G. D. Patterson, Jr., Experiment Station, E. I. du Pont de Nemours A· Co., Inc., Wilmington. Del. Here is a soft-cover collection of ex cellent papers, all pertinent to the title, but made essentially devoid of perma nent value to the literature by the lack of either logical arrangement or index. On the other hand, the publishers de serve commendation for prompt pub lishing (within two months of the July 1960 conference date) and superb print ing. Analytical chemists can ill afford not to peruse these 30 papers (by 47 authors) which emphasize biochemical and medieo-physiological (about V 2 ) and general or special techniques and instruments (about 1 / 3 ) . The authors represent 16 companies (6 instrument producers and 10 instrument users), 7 institutes, and 4 schools. All papers but one describe research carried out in the United States, and most refer to novel applications of known measuring techniques. Dr. Ralph Miiller's introductory agreement with Van Zandt Williams' assertion that analysts are prone to ask for simple mechanization of their cur rent practices and that instrumentation experts are ready to offer something far better "rings a bell" with this reviewer. The difficulty usually is to get the two (i.e. analysts and instrumentation ex perts) productively together at the proper time. Several authors allude
with pertinence to security and cost problems encountered in such arrange ments. The impact of automation in analyti cal chemistry is forcefully driven home in every one of the papers of this mono graph, and it would be unfair to cite any to the exclusion of the rest. Indus trial analysts will be inspired by the accomplishments here reported, es pecially by those working in the medi cal sciences.
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Soviet Research on Complexes and Coordination Chemistry. Five volumes. Compiled by Gregory R. Choppin. Consultants Bureau Enter prises, Inc., 227 West 17th St., New York 11, N. Y. I960. -$200 for the set. This is a collection of 372 articles resulting from Soviet research carried out in the general area of the chem istry of complexes during the years 1949 to 1957. Each of the five volumes may also be purchased separately at the following prices: I, Inorganic Com plexes, 103 articles, $65; II, MetalOrganic Complexes, S6 articles, $45; III, Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stud ies, 57 articles, $37.50; IV, Complexes in Analytical Chemistry, 57 articles, 837.50; and V, Condensed Inorganic Svstems, 38 articles and Miscellaneous, 31 articles, $45.
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