Ghiorso, Albert

Introduction

American nuclear chemist. University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Laboratory.

Led the team of scientists examining the debris from the first hydrogen bomb test "Mike" in the Pacific Ocean.

Ghiorso is credited with discovery of codiscovery if 10 elements

• americium (1944)
• berkelium (1949)
• curium (1944)
• einsteinium (1953)
• fermium (1952)
• lawrencium (1961)
• rutherfordium (1969)*
• seaborgium (1974)
• nobelium (1958)

Reported earlier in 1964 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, named kurchatovium (Ku) but report contested.

More general terms

• Homo sapiens