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    A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
    A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
    A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
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    A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis

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      A Brief History

      of

      ELEMENT DISCOVERY,

      SYNTHESIS, and ANALYSIS

      Glen W. Watson

      September 1963

      LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY

      University of California

      Berkeley and Livermore

      Operating under contract with the

      United States Atomic Energy Commission

      Radioactive elements: alpha particles from a speck of radium leave tracks on a photographic emulsion. (Occhialini and Powell, 1947)

      A BRIEF HISTORY OF

      ELEMENT DISCOVERY, SYNTHESIS,

      AND ANALYSIS

      It is well known that the number of elements has grown from four in the days of the Greeks to 103 at present, but the change in methods needed for their discovery is not so well known. Up until 1939, only 88 naturally occurring elements had been discovered. It took a dramatic modern technique (based on Ernest O. Lawrence's Nobel-prize-winning atom smasher, the cyclotron) to synthesize the most recently discovered elements. Most of these recent discoveries are directly attributed to scientists working under the Atomic Energy Commission at the University of California's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley.

      But it is apparent that our present knowledge of the elements stretches back into history: back to England's Ernest Rutherford, who in 1919 proved that, occasionally, when an alpha particle from radium strikes a nitrogen atom, either a proton or a hydrogen nucleus is ejected; to the Dane Niels Bohr and his 1913 idea of electron orbits; to a once unknown Swiss patent clerk, Albert Einstein, and his now famous theories; to Poland's Marie Curie who, in 1898, with her

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