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First Coherent Representation of Atomic Nucleus: Uniting Quarks and Gluons in Nuclear Physics Introduction to the Atomic Nucleus The atomic nucleus consists of protons and neutrons, whose existence arises from the interaction of quarks bound together by gluons. One might assume, then, that recreating all the  pro perties of atomic nuclei observed in nuclear ex periments using only quarks and gluons would be straightforward. Yet, it is only recently that  physicists, including those at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, have achieved this. Historical Context Discovery of Protons and Neutrons Nearly a century has  passed since the discovery of the key com ponents of atomic nuclei: P rotons and Neutrons. At first, these  particles were believed to be indivisible. However, in the 1960s, it was  pro posed that at sufficiently high energies,  protons and neutrons would ex pose their internal structure--quarks bound toge...