Word: glendenin
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Other element-hunters polished off some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...
Until the question of priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...
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