The Discovery of Berkelium, Element 97, the 5th Transuranium
S.G. Thompson, A. Ghirorso, G.T. Seaborg. “Element 97”. In: Physical Review, vol 77, no 6, March 15, 1950, pp 838-9 in the issue of pp 765-872, viiipp. Original green wrappers. Fine copy.
offered with another issue of the PR:
_____. “The New Element Berkelium (Atomic Number 97)” In: Physical Review, vol 80, no. 5, December 1, 1950, in the issue of pp 771-926, this article occupying pp 871-790. Original Green wrappers. Fine copy. The pair: $350
“Berkelium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with symbol Bk and atomic number 97. It is a member of the actinide and transuranium element series. It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, the location of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (then the University of California Radiational Laboratory) where it was discovered in December 1949. Berkelium was the fifth transuranium element discovered after neptunium, plutonium, curium and americium.”
“The major isotope of berkelium, 249Bk, is synthesized in minute quantities in dedicated high-flux nuclear reactors, mainly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia…”–Wiki
Element 98
S. G. Thompson; K. Street Jr.; A. Ghiorso; G. T. Seaborg . “Element 98”. In Physical Review, 1950, volume 78, no. 3, pp 298–299. This is an issue of the Physical Review with the original wrappers, removed froma larger bound volume, though it has no backstrip to the spine. That said, it is a Fine copy. $125
S.G. Thompson, A. Ghiorso, B.G. Harvey, G.R. Choppin. “Transcurium Isotpes Produced in the Neutron Radiation of Plutonium”. In: Physical Review, p. 980 in the issue of pp 655-954
Also in this issue: Flowler, .B.et al. “Production of Heavy Unstable Particles by Negative Pions”, pp 861-867.
Offered in the original green wrappers. Fine condition. $200
Elements 99 and 100
G.R. Choppin, S.G. Thompson, A. Ghiorso, B.G. Harevy. Nuclear Properties of some Isotopes of Californium, Elements 99 and 100 Pp 1080-1081.
and with, in the same issue:
____. “New Isotopes of Americium, Berkelium, and Californium”. Pp 1081.
Both in the Physical Review, volume 94, no. 4, May 15, 1954.
Einsteinium and Fermium, Atomic Numbers 99 and 100
A. Ghiorso; S. G. Thompson; G. H. Higgins; G. T. Seaborg; M. H. Studier; P. R. Fields; S. M. Fried; H. Diamond; J. F. Mech; G. L. Pyle; J. R. Huizenga; A. Hirsch; W. M. Manning; C. I. Browne; H. L. Smith; R. W. Spence. “New Elements Einsteinium and Fermium, Atomic Numbers 99 and 100”. In Physical Review, 1955, volume. 99 (3): 1048–1049. Original wrappers, a FINE copy removed from a larger bound volume. $150
Element 101
A. Ghiorsom B.G. Harvey, G.R. Choppin, S.G. Thomson, and G.T. Seaborg. “New Element Mendelevium, Atomic Number 101”. Physical Review, volume 98 no. 5, June 1, 1955, this article occupying pp 1518-9.
Followed in the same issue by G.R. Choppin, B.G. Harvey, S.G. Thompson, A. Ghiorsom. “Nuclear Properties of 100^256.” Same issue, pp 1519-1520
Both offered in the bound volume 98, May-June, 1955, pp 847-1936. Bound in red cloth, without wrappers, the entire volume offered. Fine copy. $125