[en] Full text: Substantial progress has been made in nuclear physics, the study of hadronic matter. The understanding of the structure of hadrons, has advanced considerably in the recent past and there is better knowledge of the electric and magnetic shape of nucleons. We are now able to describe nuclear properties quantitatively with ab initio calculations starting with the interaction between nucleons. The experimental exploration of nuclei and their structure in both the stable regime, and in regions increasingly remote from the valley of stability, is showing systematic changes in with neutron excess. Our understanding of hot, dense nuclear matter that was dominant in the earliest stages of our universe has been clarified, at least in some measure. The properties of nuclei relevant to the formation of elements in stars are being determined more quantitatively. Nuclear physics is making major contributions to the understanding of fundamental interactions and, in particular, to the properties of neutrinos, the lightest known elementary particles. The field of nuclear physics has broadened considerably and now bridges areas of science between many-body physics, in the hadronic context, and the understanding of some of the most fundamental symmetries

[en] The course of nuclear physics is reviewed in the period from just before Hideki Yukawa's birth through the middle of the 20th century. Some information on Yukawa's first paper is presented. Then some general observations about the present state of the field of nuclear physics and of science are given

[en] An attempt is made to review a small fraction of what has happened in Nuclear Physics after Rutherford, some milestones and the shifting focus of the field. In a hundred years enormous progress had been made, but there is still a great deal about the properties of hadronic matter that we do not understand, matter that makes up virtually all of the visible mass in our Universe.