I came across a review of a couple of Penguin books on nuclear physics from 1972. Written by Denys Wilkinson and published in the book review section of Nature, they were not especially positive. I thought it quite telling that he disliked the comparison of the square well and oscillator potential, which is done to show how similar the level scheme is. Not having that in nuclear structure textbooks seems like a lost battle, perhaps thanks to the ubiquity of the shell model and the nod to Meyer and Jensen's textbook on the matter, among other things. The quote from the review is quite impassioned:
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