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we have elements like einsteinium, berklium, and californium (not to mention plutonium of course) because of glen seaborg, the greatest alchemist of the 20th century. seaborg gave us 9 new elements and he turned bismuth (bismuth was adjacent to lead in mendeleev’s dream) into gold we’re told. glenn did his magic at berkeley using particle accelerators of course… www.seaborg.ucla.edu/biography… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_… www.scientificamerican.com/art… …the so-called transuranic elements invented at berkeley do make mendeleev’s dream even more ridiculous… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transu… …not that it wasn’t already ridiculous; take the man who gave mendeleev’s dream it’s logic for instance, henry moseley… “Moseley’s work was certainly on… Read more »
How droll the war story: “and a cannonball dropped through the kitchen fireplace. Beauregard wrote after the battle, “A comical effect of this artillery fight was the destruction of the dinner of myself and staff by a Federal shell that fell into the fire-place of my headquarters at the McLean House”
