Nucleosynthesis

Resources

• Humor
  • I'm Going to Be a Star. Protostellar Molecular Cloud Barnard 631. The Onion. No. 42.40 (4 October 2006).
• stellar nucleosynthesis
  • Astronomy 162, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    • The Proton-Proton Chain
    • The CNO Cycle
    • The Triple Alpha Process
• heavy element research centers
  • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
    (Объединенный Институт Ядерных Исследований, Дубна, Россия)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, California
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, Tennessee
• Historical
  • first nucleosynthesis reaction
    • Collision of α particles with light atoms. IV. An anomalous effect in nitrogen. Ernest Rutherford. Philosophical Magazine Series 6. Vol. 37 No. 222 (1919): 581–587.
  • technetium (element 43)
    • Some Chemical Properties of Element 43. Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 5 No. 9 (1937): 712–716.
    • Technetium: The Element of Atomic Number 43. Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè. Nature. Vol. 159 No. 4027 (1947): 24.
  • promethium (element 61)
    • The Chemical Identification of Radioisotopes of Neodymium and of Element 61. J.A. Marinsky, L.E. Glendenin, C.D. Coryell. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 69 No. 11 (November 1947): 2781–2785.
• transuranium
  • neptunium (element 93) and plutonium (element 94)
    • Radioactive Element 93. Edwin McMillan and Philip Hauge Abelson. Physical Review. Vol. 57 No. 1185 (15 June 1940).
    • Properties of 94(239). J.W. Kennedy, G.T. Seaborg, E. Segrè, and A.C. Wahl. Physical Review. Vol. 70 No. 555 (1 October 1946).
    • The Physical Review's Explosive Secret. Chelsea Wald. Physical Review Focus. Vol. 14 No. 17 (26 October 2004).
  • americium (95) and curium (96)
    • The Chemical and Radioactive Properties of the Heavy Elements. Glenn T. Seaborg. Chemical Engineering News. Vol. 23 (10 December 1945): 2190–2193. Wartime acceleration in the study of the heavy elements above No. 88, which form a transition series of the rare earth type, has removed them from the unfamiliar. The discovery of elements 95 and 96, of a new isotope of neptunium, of the occurrence of plutonium in nature, and its large-scale production at Hanford, are outlined.
    • The Transuranium Elements. Glenn Seaborg. Science. Vol. 104 No. 2704 (25 October 1946): 379–386.
  • berkelium (97) californium (98)
    • The new element berkelium (atomic number 97). S.G. Thompson, A. Ghiorso, G.T. Seaborg. Physical Review. Vol. 80 (1 December 1950): 781. Open access copy in the California Digital Library.
    • The new element californium (atomic number 98). S.G. Thompson, K. Street Jr., A. Ghiorso, G.T. Seaborg. Physical Review. Vol. 80 (1 December 1950): 790. Open access copy in the California Digital Library.
  • einsteinium (99) and fermium (100)
    • New Elements Einsteinium and Fermium, Atomic Numbers 99 and 100. Ghiorso, A.; Thompson, S. G.; Higgins, G. H.; Seaborg, G. T.; Studier, M. H.; Fields, P. R.; Fried, S. M.; Diamond, H.; Mech, J. F.; Pyle, G. L.; Huizenga, J. R.; Hirsch, A.; Manning, W. M.; Browne, C. I.; Smith, H. L.; Spence, R. W. Physical Review. Vol. 99 No. 3 (1 August 1955): 1048–1049.
• transfermium

• elements 118 & 116
  • false
    • Summary, Physical Review Focus, 6 August 1999
    • Full Article, Physical Review Letters, 9 August 1999
    • Retraction, Physical Review Letters, 15 July 2002
  • true
    • Summary, Physics News, 16 October 2006
    • Full Article, Physical Review C, 9 October 2006
• Video on demand
  • Brady Haran
    • $500,000 of Calcium. Periodic Videos. YouTube (2017). The rare isotope calcium 48 plays a key role in the creation of superheavy elements. But it's not easy to obtain. Filmed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna, Russia.