When I become aware of the intention of organizing, in the course of this Symposium, a Ceremony to celebrate my work in nuclear physics, on occasion of my retirement, I was obliged to look back to my activity, something that I had deferred until that moment because in some sense it meant that an important part of my life was at its end and I was not prepared to that. When I did that, I soon realized that it was uninteresting to start the talk I was expected to deliver by discussing in detail the various items I have covered in my investigations, but it could be of some interest, when speaking of the beginning of my activity, to show glimpses of the dramatic progress of nuclear physics in the rather long period covered by my research (from 1960 up to now) and to speak after only of my investigations more strictly related to the arguments covered in this Symposium.
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