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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Word Origin: Mendelevium is named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Mendelevium is part of the actinide series. As is characteristic of actinide elements, mendelevium possesses a III ...

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 ...

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, ...

Near the beginning of time, the universe almost certainly contained many elements heavier than uranium, the heaviest element that exists naturally on earth. Gradually these “transuranium” elements ...

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 ...

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