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From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements - A Story of Dispute and Creation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements - A Story of Dispute and Creation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of
the periodic table - is not well known outside the community
of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most
interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians,
philosophers, and sociologists of science and indeed to the general
public. This is what the present work aims at. It tells the story
or rather parts of the story, of how physicists and chemists
created elements heavier than uranium or searched for them in
nature. And it does so with an emphasis on the frequent discovery
and naming disputes concerning the synthesis of very heavy
elements. Moreover, it calls attention to the criteria which
scientists have adopted for what it means to have discovered a new
element. In this branch of modern science it may be more
appropriate to speak of creation instead of discovery. The work
will be of interest to scientists as well as to scholars studying
modern science from a meta-perspective.
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