Transuranium People, The: The Inside Story
Author:   Darleane C Hoffman (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  Albert Ghiorso (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  Glenn T Seaborg (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  . The Regents, Univ Of California (Univ Of California, Berkeley, Usa)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
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9781860940873


Pages:   564
Publication Date:   24 January 2000
Format:   Hardback
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In this volume, three pioneering investigators provide an account of the discovery and investigation of the nuclear and chemical properties of the 20 known transuranium elements. The neutron irradiation of uranium led to the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 and then to the first transuranium element, neptunium (atomic number 93) in 1940. Plutonium (94) quickly followed and the next nine elements completed the actinide series by 1961. Investigation of the chemical properties of actinides was followed more recently by chemical studies of the first three transactinides - rutherfordium (104), hahnium (105) and seaborgium (106). Recent discoveries have extended the known elements to 112.

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Author:   Darleane C Hoffman (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  Albert Ghiorso (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  Glenn T Seaborg (Univ Of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, Usa) ,  . The Regents, Univ Of California (Univ Of California, Berkeley, Usa)
Publisher:   Imperial College Press
Imprint:   Imperial College Press
ISBN:  

9781860940873


ISBN 10:   1860940870
Pages:   564
Publication Date:   24 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Neptunium and plutonium; the plutonium people; Americium and curium; berkelium and californium; the big bang - discovery of einsteinium and fermium; mendelevium; nobelium and lawrencium; rutherfordium and hahnium; seaborgium; bohrium (107), hassium (108) and meitnerium (109); elements 110, 111 and 112; naming controversies and the Transfermium Working Group; searches for the superheavy elements; reflections and predictions.

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"""'The Transuranium People' is a splendid tribute to those who have made the past 60 years a golden age for discovering new elements."" C&EN"


'The Transuranium People' is a splendid tribute to those who have made the past 60 years a golden age for discovering new elements. C&EN


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