Overview of nuclear structure with electrons

Following a broad summary of our view of nuclear structure in 1974, I will discuss the key elements we have learned in the past 25 years from the research at the M.I.T. Bates Linear Accelerator Center and its sister electron accelerator laboratories. Electron scattering has provided the essential measurements for most of our progress. The future is bright for nuclear structure research as our ability to realistically calculate nuclear structure observables has dramatically advanced and we are increasingly able to incorporate an understanding of quantum chromodynamics into our picture of the nucleus