For those who celebrate the Lunar New Year, 2019 is the year of the pig. But for chemists around the world, 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of the periodic table by Mendeleev ...
Elements heavier than uranium don’t exist naturally on Earth. Researchers make these massive elements at the end of the periodic table by smashing existing atoms together in particle accelerators.
THIS work combines a comprehensive set of tables of nuclear physics data compiled by J. Mattauch with an introduction to nuclear physics by S. Fluegge. It was first published in Germany in 1941 and ...