From transuranic to superheavy elements : a story of dispute and creation / Helge Kragh.
2018
QD172.T7
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Title
From transuranic to superheavy elements : a story of dispute and creation / Helge Kragh.
Author
Kragh, Helge, 1944- author.
ISBN
9783319758138 (electronic book)
3319758136 (electronic book)
9783319758121
3319758128
3319758136 (electronic book)
9783319758121
3319758128
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-75813-8 doi
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QD172.T7
Dewey Decimal Classification
546.44
Summary
The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and indeed to the general public. This is what the present work aims at. It tells the story or rather parts of the story, of how physicists and chemists created elements heavier than uranium or searched for them in nature. And it does so with an emphasis on the frequent discovery and naming disputes concerning the synthesis of very heavy elements. Moreover, it calls attention to the criteria which scientists have adopted for what it means to have discovered a new element. In this branch of modern science it may be more appropriate to speak of creation instead of discovery. The work will be of interest to scientists as well as to scholars studying modern science from a meta-perspective.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 19, 2018).
Series
SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology.
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Print version: 9783319758121
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