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A few examples will be given of the essential role played by low-energy nuclear physics in the fundaments of elementary particles and in particle astrophysics. The crucial impact in weak-interaction physics by the discovery of parity violation, which is now fifty years old, and the corresponding experiments will be summarized. A brief discussion will be devoted to the recent experiments on neutrino oscillations which prove that the difference between the square masses of two neutrinos of different flavour is different from zero. As a consequence, the mass of at least one neutrino has to be finite, but oscillations cannot provide a direct indication of its value. Stimulated by these exciting results a vast series of experiments aiming to determine directly the neutrino mass has been carried out and is running or planned.
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