By use of the equipment developed for the precision scattering project at the University of Pittsburgh, inelastic scattering of 8-Mev protons from a thin nickel target has been observed at 90\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}. The energy levels obtained for natural nickel are 1.344, 1.479, 2.186, 2.326, 2.501, 2.660, 2.814, 2.946, 3.081, 3.161, 3.226, 3.308, 3.462, 3.575,3.646, 3.773, 3.823, 3.944, 3.979, and 4.066 Mev. At present, only the three levels 1.344, 1.479, 2.501 Mev can be assigned to nickel 60 from comparison with beta-decay of cobalt 60.
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