1. Editor's note

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Igor' Vasil'evich Kurchatov

   • I. K. Kikoin

   Announcement Pages: 2 - 6

3. I. V. Kurchatov and nuclear reactors

   • V. V. Goncharov

   Announcement Pages: 7 - 13

4. Spontaneous fission and synthesis of far transuranium elements

   • G. N. Flerov
   • E. D. Donets
   • V. A. Druin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 14 - 21

5. Investigation of properties of μ-mesic atoms and μ-mesic molecules of hydrogen and deuterium at the Dubna 680-MeV synchrocyclotron

   • V. P. Dzhelepov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 32

6. Longitudinally polarized proton beam in the six-meter synchrocyclotron

   • M. G. Meshcheryakov
   • Yu. P. Kumekin
   • G. D. Stoletov

   BriefCommunication Pages: 33 - 35

7. On the theory of rotational spectra

   • A. Bohr
   • B. R. Mottelson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 36 - 39

8. On delayed protons

   • N. A. Vlasov

   BriefCommunication Pages: 40 - 42

9. The isotope effect in elastic scattering of protons on nuclei

   • A. K. Val'ter
   • A. P. Klyucharev

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 50

10. Collective interactions and the production of a high-temperature plasma

    • E. K. Zavoiskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 58

11. British research in controlled thermonuclear fusion

    • Sir John Cockcroft

    OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 62

12. Cyclotron instability in ogra

    • V. I. Pistunovich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 71

13. Screw and flute instabilities in a low-pressure plasma

    • B. Lehnert

    OriginalPaper Pages: 72 - 82

14. The initial stages of the evolution of the universe

    • Ya. B. Zel'dovich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 91

15. The age of nuclei and the nuclear synthesis time

    • V. A. Davidenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 92 - 96

16. Causality in present-day field theory

    • D. I. Blokhintsev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 101

17. Lobachevskian kinematics and geometry

    • Ya. A. Smorodinskii

    OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 113

18. Electrokinetic effects in liquid mercury

    • A. R. Regel'
    • S. I. Patyanin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 114 - 119

19. Bibliography of the published works of academician I. V. Kurchatov

    Bibliography Pages: 120 - 124