[en] A description of the various experiments and projects carried out during the period of this contract is given, together with references to all publications which have resulted from it to date. References are also given to contributed papers which contain results which have not yet been published or submitted. Most of the experiments were done at Argonne National Laboratory and cover the period from the first use of a superconducting linear accelerator with the tandem Van de Graaff to the use of ATLAS. A number of experiments were also done at the University of Notre Dame tandem facility and one at the Indiana Cyclotron Facility. A list of graduate and undergraduate students is given, as is a summary of support from the Department of Energy and the University of Kansas. 30 refs