The Ph.D. thesis of James Matta has been selected for publication as a book by the well-known science publisher Springer under the "Springer Theses" series.
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Matta's dissertation, titled "Exotic Nuclear Excitations: The Transverse Wobbling Mode IN 135Pr" was completed under the supervision of Prof. Umesh Garg.