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...right on adding to the table of elements. By last week they were up to No. 103. But the job is getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei...
...fourth element maker, Albert Ghiorso, 45, has a Berkeley B.S. in electrical engineering, but he got into longhair physics by a back door. Son of a Vallejo, Calif, riveter, he went to work for a local electronics manufacturer and designed a successful commercial Geiger counter. While selling and servicing his product, he came in contact with the Radiation Lab, was fascinated, and got a job there. Working with top scientists, Ghiorso listened hard, and in the informal classroom he absorbed a higher education in higher physics. "I grew up with atomic energy," he says lightly...
According to the Physical Review, a group of scientists at the University of California (Albert Ghiorso, G. Bernard Rossi, Bernard G. Harvey and Stanley G. Thompson) have created Element 99, the heaviest so far. They did it by bombarding Uranium 238 (Element 92) with a beam of positively charged nitrogen atoms from a 60-inch cyclotron. The nitrogen atoms contained seven protons and seven neutrons, and when they collided with U-238, all except five of the neutrons joined its nucleus. The seven added protons raised the atomic number to 99, and the added neutrons and protons together raised...