The Transuranium People : The Inside Story


D C. Hoffman
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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Singapore : : World Scientific Publishing Company, , 2000.
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1 online resource (563 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999); Preface Intimate Glimpses of the Authors' Early Lives; P.1. Darleane C. Hoffman; P.2. Albert Ghiorso; P.3. Glenn T. Seaborg; Glossary; Acronyms; Decay Modes; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1. The Pretransuranium Story; 1.2. Early Days at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory; 1.3. Transplutonium Elements; 1.4. Current Status; References; Chapter 2 Neptunium and Plutonium; 2.1. Discovery and Isolation of Neptunium; 2.2. Discovery of Plutonium; 2.2.1. Nuclear Fission of Plutonium; 2.2.2. Epilogue: 244Pu in Nature; References. - 11.1. Introduction: The UNILAC. - 5.2. Reminiscences on the Discovery of Berkelium and Californium5.2.1. Glenn T. Seaborg; 5.2.2. Stanley G. Thompson; 5.2.3. Albert Ghiorso; 5.2.4. Kenneth Street, Jr.; References; Chapter 6 The ""Big Bang"": Discovery of Einsteinium and Fermium; 6.1. The View from Los Alamos; 6.2. The View from Berkeley; 6.3. Naming of Elements 99 and 100; 6.4. Microscopic Quantities; 6.5. Publication; 6.6. Limits to Production; 6.7. Role of Spontaneous Fission; 6.8. Commemorative Symposium; 6.9. Outline of Important Points in the History of Elements 99 and 1006.13; References; Chapter 7 Mendelevium. - 7.1. Introduction7.2. Tribute to Stanley G. Thompson; 7.3. 25th Anniversary Symposium; 7.4. Introductory Remarks on the 1980 Symposium by Glenn T. Seaborg; A Chemist's Chemist; 7.5. Reminiscences from the 1980 Symposium; 7.5.1. Albert Ghiorso; 7.5.2. Bernard G. Harvey; 7.5.3. Gregory F. Choppin; 7.6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 8 Nobelium and Lawrencium; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Nobelium (Element 102); 8.2.1. The Nobel Institute Experiment of 1957; 8.2.2. The Berkeley Work; 8.2.3. The Dubna Work; 8.2.4. The New Berkeley Work; 8.3. Lawrencium (Element 103); References. - Chapter 3 The Plutonium People3.1. The Metallurgical (Plutonium) Project; 3.2. Evolution of the Bismuth Phosphate Process; 3.3. The Clinton Plant; 3.4. Ultramicrochemistry; 3.5. Isolation of Plutonium; 3.6. The Hanford Plant; 3.7. The Los Alamos Laboratory; 3.8. Some Other Early Contributors; 3.9. Properties of Plutonium; 3.10. Publication; 3.11. The Franck Report; 3.12. Disposal of Plutonium; References; Chapter 4 Americium and Curium; Note; References; General Updated References; Chapter 5 Berkelium and Californium; 5.1. Introduction. - Chapter 9 Rutherfordium and Hahnium9.1. Introduction; 9.1.1. Rutherfordium (Element 104); 9.1.2. Hahnium (Element 105); 9.2. Review of 104 and 105 Discovery Claims; 9.2.1. Fission Isomers; 9.2.2. Element 104; 9.2.3. Element 105; 9.3. Recent Chemical Studies of Rutherfordium and Hahnium; References; Chapter 10 Seaborgium; 10.1. Discovery; 10.2. The ""Untold Story"" of Seaborgium; 10.3. Independent Confirmation and Naming of Element 106; 10.4. First Studies of Chemical Properties of Seaborgium; References; Chapter 11 Bohrium (107), Hassium (108), and Meitnerium (109). - In this highly interesting book, three pioneering investigators provide an account of the discovery and investigation of the nuclear and chemical properties of the twenty presently 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 the actinides was followed more recently by chemical studies of the first three tr
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