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Abstract
Our current ideas about nuclear structure are reviewed with particular reference to recent developments. Exotic nuclei far from the valley of stability are now being studied, as well as high-spin states of deformed nuclei. The limitations of the shell model are reviewed, with the effects due to short-range correlations between nucleons given special attention. Nucleons in the nucleus tend to group themselves into clusters, and this too affects nuclear structure.