From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements: A Story of Dispute and Creation

ISBN-13: 9783319758121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 106 str.

Helge Kragh

Opis

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. 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.

Recenzje

"This concisely written book provides wonderful discussions on the discovery, verification, and disputes surrounding all twenty-six tranuranic elements. ... From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements is geared to historians of science, chemists, and physicists, rather than a general audience." (Howard G. Barth, Isis, Vol. 110 (1), March, 2019)

O autorze

Helge Kragh, born in Copenhagen in 1944, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Copenhagen. He holds two doctorates, one in the sciences and the other in the humanities.

Kragh’s research interests are in the history of physics from the mid-19th century onward, the history of astronomy, the history of cosmology and the history of chemistry, often with a preference for interdisciplinary fields such as cosmochemistry, physical chemistry or physical cosmology.

Kragh is a co-founder of the European Society for the History of Science and served as its president in 2008-2010. He is Professor Emeritus at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.