At first glance there's nothing odd about naming element 99 in the periodic table 'einsteinium'. After all, Einstein is the most famous scientist that has ever lived. Yet fame is not usually a good ...

Element 117 was named tennessine because of the participation of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University and the ...

This is the second part of a three-part series written by Carolyn Krause. Many of the elements were synthesized using an Oak ...

I would start with Newtownian gravity and move to Einsteinium relativistic gravity. If, on the other hand, I go into the classroom and teach the students that Einstein was wrong, that’s a huge ...

The ninety-ninth element in the periodic table was discovered shortly after Einstein's death in 1955, and it was named "einsteinium." "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is ...

Likewise, einsteinium pays tribute to Albert Einstein. Carbon atoms — from Group 4 — bond in long chains, and voilà: sugars. The chemical flexibility of carbon is what makes it the key ...

profit perspective. Amy Allen, London,UK Probably some transuranic element like fermium, einsteinium, berkeleium or calafornium. Scientists spend billions of pounds creating microgrammes of the ...

But only two elements have been named after living people. One is element 99, einsteinium. The other is element 106, called seaborgium in honour of the American chemist Glenn Seaborg. Seaborg's career ...