Abelson, Phillip

Abelson, Phillip H. The Asbestos Removal Fiasco. Science 247(1990) 1017. 

Abelson, Phillip. 1939. Cleavage of the uranium nucleus. Phys, Rev, 56 418. 

Edwin M. McMillan and Phillip H. Abelson succeeded in synthesizing the first transuranium element, neptunium (element 93), at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1940. In 1941, Glenn T. Seaborg synthesized and identified element 94 (plutonium), and over the next several years, researchers under his direction at UC Berkeley discovered nine other transuranium elements. In 1945 Seaborg suggested that the elements heavier than element 89 (actinium) were misplaced as transition metals and should be relocated on the periodic table in a series below the transition metals... 

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