Frontiers in Nuclear Structure

The main objective of this brief review was to discuss various facts of nuclear structure physics. The list of topics covered is by no means complete due to time and space constraints. In years to come, they shall see substantial progress in their understanding of molecular structure--a rich and interdisciplinary field. An important element in this task is to extend the study of nuclei into new domains. New radioactive beam facilities, together with advanced multi-detector arrays and mass/change separators, is essential in probing nuclei in new domains where new phenomena, likely to be different from anything they have observed to date, will occur. The new data are expected to bring qualitatively new information about the fundamental properties of the nucleonic many-body system and will be crucial for developing a unified description of the nucleus