Word: torbjorn
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...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 from...
...Chemist Torbjorn Sikkeland, 37, was born in Norway and educated at the University of Oslo. In 1957 he came to Berkeley as an exchange scientist and won a permanent place on the Radiation Lab's cosmopolitan staff. He is the only one of the four with a Ph.D. But the lack of an advanced degree is no handicap to the others; top-rank laboratories admit that doctorates are nice decorations, but the lab directors know only too well that the degrees often mean little more than three extra years of unprofitable study...
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