A team of scientists has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the 17th and lightest form of the element, which was first ...

Albert Ghiorso, Gregory R. Choppin, Bernard G. Harvey, Glenn T. Seaborg and Stanley G. Thompson first produced mendelevium at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. They bombarded einsteinium ...

This element is the first that was man-made in the laboratory, one atom at a time. Mendelevium is an actinoid that can synthesised in the lab by bombarding einsteinium-253 with alpha particles (helium ...

A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the ...

A team of scientists has provided new insights into the fission processes in exotic nuclei and for this, has produced the hitherto unknown nucleus mendelevium-244. The experiments were part of 'FAIR ...

Nuclear scientists are extremely interested in how different combinations of protons and neutrons affect the structure of the nucleus. Newly discovered isotopes have unique combinations of protons and ...

On the periodic table of elements, there's a bunch of elements, usually named after famous scientists, that are known as synthetic elements. These are made by determined scientists with ...

The search for new elements is something that scientists have been doing for hundreds of years. Once Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev organised the elements known at his time according to a repeating, ...

News & Views Published: 21 May 1955 Element 101 : Mendelevium Nature 175, 881 (1955) Cite this article ...