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Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned six decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.
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science · American nuclear scientist · physicist · chemist · nuclear physicist · inventor · engineer · also Albert Ghiorso, A. Ghiorso, A Ghiorso, Ghiorso
Born 15 July 1915 · Died 26 December 2010 · Q468345
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NPR: Remembering The Legacy Of Chemist Albert Ghiorso
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Los Angeles Times: Albert Ghiorso dies at 95; engineer played crucial role in discovery of 12 elements
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Died 2010-12-26.
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Evidence for two superheavy elements (element 116 and element 118) was published by a group in Berkeley
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That gave evidence of elements 116 and 118, which later turned out to be a case of scientific fraud perpetrated by the first author, Victor Ninov
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Awarded Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry (1973).
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Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1969).
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The group used the cyclotron to produce 17 atoms of element 101 (mendelevium), the first new element to be discovered atom-by-atom
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In a collaboration with Argonne Lab, Ghiorso and collaborators sought and found elements 99 (einsteinium) and 100 (fermium), identified by their characteristic radiation in dust collected by airplanes from the first ther
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Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Science (1937).
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Born 1915-07-15.
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