Title From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements : A Story of Dispute and Creation Author(s) Kragh, Helge Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. Description VIII, 106 p. 2 illus : online resource Abstract Note 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 ISBN,Price 9783319758138 Keyword(s) 1. CHEMISTRY - HISTORY 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. Heavy ions 5. HISTORY 6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics 7. History of Chemistry 8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 9. NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY 10. NUCLEAR PHYSICS 11. Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons 12. Philosophy and science 13. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 14. PHYSICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I09913     On Shelf