But let me get back to berkelium. It was the fifth element in the periodic table after the last naturally occurring element, uranium, to be artificially synthesised. Berkelium was first made some 60 ...

with berkelium-249 atoms (97 protons) obtained from ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor. In another connection involving one ...

No written music or instruction was given to us; the music played at “Doors That Only Open in Silence” is wholly improvised on the spot and participants mainly communicate through ...

Another potential double magic nuclei, 304 120, could be created by combining vanadium and berkelium, although this reaction is currently less likely to succeed. The idea of creating these superheavy ...

IN a recent little book entitled “The Story of Magnesium”, issued by the American Society of Metals in 1949, the author, W. H. Gross, states (p. 17): “The discovery of magnesium is generally ...

A PHOTOGRAPHIC method for the detection of extremely weak α-activities has recently been described 1. The method has now been applied to the examination of elements 59, 60 and 62. The results ...

with berkelium-249 atoms (97 protons) obtained from ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor. In another connection involving one person, Jack Gibbons, a physicist at ORNL, was asked by Weinberg to head ...