A method of evaluating the density distribution of particles inside a heavy nucleus is described. The results are used to show that the electrostatic repulsion between protons is too weak to produce a nucleus sufficiently hollow to explain the observed `closed shells' at N, Z =50, 82.
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W.J. Świa̧tecki (1950) studied this question.
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