W. Thiele

TL;DR: In this article, a list of alpha decay energies, binding energies of some combinations of protons and neutrons and reaction energies of various nuclear reactions for a large number of nuclides are derived by least squares adjustment of a large set of experimental data.

TL;DR: An extensive computer program has been written for, and applied to, the calculation of "best values" for the masses of atoms from measured values of mass spectroscopic doublets and those of nuclear reaction energies as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, mass formulae including liquid-drop terms as well as phenomenological shell-model corrections have been computed and the change of both due to nuclear deformations has been taken into account.

TL;DR: In this paper, a compromise between these two extremely different models is presented, and the authors suggest that the fact that there are so many different formulae is quite amusing, since physics is amusing as long as there are problems.