The table of isotopes eary story

Conference · Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:560269

Seaborg, G T ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)

The first complete Table of Isotopes, entitled {open_quotes}A table of induced radioactivities,{close_quotes} consisting of 13 pages including references, was published by John J. Livingood and me in the January, 1940 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics; this publication also included a table {open_quotes}Stable Isotopes of the Elements{close_quotes} but didn`t include the natural radioactivities. This was soon followed by a similar {open_quotes}Complete list of induced radioactivities{close_quotes} included in my extensive article {open_quotes}Artificial Radioactivity{close_quotes} published in the August 1940 issue of Chemical Reviews. Then during World War II, working at the wartime Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago (but with camouflaged identification with U.C. Berkeley) I published in the January 1944 issue of Rev. Mod.-Phys. a 32-page {open_quotes}Table of Isotopes{close_quotes} which included the stable isotopes and natural radioactivities. My {open_quotes}Table of Isotopes{close_quotes} in Rev. Mod. Phys. was updated in 1948 (83 pages), 1953 (182 pages), 1959 (319 pages) with Isadore Perlman, Jack M. Hollander and Donald Strominger as various co-authors.

• OSTI ID: 560269
• Report Number(s): CONF-970443--
• Resource Type: Conference proceedings
• Conference Information: 213. national meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA (United States), 13-17 Apr 1997; Is Part Of 213th ACS national meeting; PB: 2904 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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66 PHYSICS
EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
ISOTOPES
PHYSICS
RADIOACTIVITY
STABLE ISOTOPES