Keywords: 96904536.thumb3.jpeg en Updating the periodic table Albert Ghiorso inscribes Lw lawrencium in space 103; codiscoverers l to r Robert Latimer Dr Torbjorn Sikkeland and Almon Larsh look on approvingly The new element was created at the Heavy Ion Linear Accelerator Hilac by bombarding a target of californium with 98 protons with boron nuclei with 5 protons thus creating a new element with 103 protons It is the first of the trans- uranium elements to be identified entirely by nuclear rather than by chemical means JG http //imglib lbl gov/cgi-bin/ImgLib/displaytag/BERKELEY-LAB/RESEARCH-1930-1990/NUCLEAR-PHYSICS/TRANSURANIUM-ELEMENTS/tags/96904536 both small 1961-04 PD-USGov other versions Lawrencium Albert Ghiorso ImageNote 1 160 156 83 102 640 555 2 Albert Ghiorso ImageNoteEnd 1 |