The man‐made chemical elements beyond uranium
AUG 01, 1962
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058316
An exciting branch of science, which started as recently as World War II and has a clearly discernible future of great promise, is that of the “transuranium elements”. These are the man‐made chemical elements with atomic numbers greater than that of the heaviest natural element, uranium, which has the atomic number 92.
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Glenn T. Seaborg, United States Atomic Energy Commission.
© 1962 American Institute of Physics
