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This book deals comprehensively with our present-day knowledge of the structure of matter from elementary particles to solids. It has been written for students of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering, in fact for all who wish to keep abreast with the rapid progress being made in this important field. The author's aim has been to provide the reader with the grounding essential to a true understanding of this vast sphere of science which during the past few decades has led to so great a change of our fundamental concepts of nature and which has found such amazingly manifold application. Accordingly, first place is given to the interpretation of experiments and theories, and to the interrelationship of such seemingly divergent fields as atomic, molecular, nuclear, and solid-state physics. Mathematical or experimental details take second place and are treated only to the extent believed necessary for proper understanding of the subject matter. The author has nevertheless endeavored to take the reader right into the front line of atomic research and to impart to him the knowledge essential to an appreciation of the far-reaching problems involved and the implications at stake.The book is a translation of the 9th/10th German edition of "Einftihrung in die Atomphysik", which was first published in 1948. The need for a work of this kind is indicated by the fact that so far a total of almost 50,000 copies has been printed in three languages.The author is indebted to the publishers for their generous co-operation and special thanks are due to Dr. O. MATOSSI-RIECHEMEIER for her invaluable help in translating and proofreading.

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