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No Nobelium
State: Solid
102 102 157 Discovery: 1963
This artificial metal
is named after the Actinides
Swedish chemist Alfred
Nobel, who started the
Nobel Prize. It was
discovered in 1963 by a
team of scientists working
in California, USA. This
team included Albert
Ghiorso, Torbjørn
Sikkeland, and John
R Walton. They used
a particle accelerator
to fire carbon atoms at
curium atoms, creating
nobelium atoms, which
broke apart within minutes.
Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, and John R Walton
103
Lr Lawrencium
103 103 163
Lawrencium
was produced at
the Berkeley
lab set up by State: Solid
Discovery: 1965
Ernest Lawrence.
Lawrencium is named after the US scientist
Ernest Lawrence, who developed the first
cyclotron particle accelerator. This is a
machine in which parts of atoms are smashed
together by making them spin round in circles.
Lawrencium atoms were produced in a
similar machine by firing boron atoms at
An early cyclotron californium atoms. 127
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