Introducing a New Isotope: Mendelevium-244

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 11:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the 17th and lightest form of mendelevium, which is element 101 on the periodic table. Mendelevium was first created by Berkeley Lab scientists in 1955 (see a […]

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