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April 28, 1986

How Many Elements Are There?

Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman
UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Award Recipient: National Medal of Science

Dr. Darleane C. Hoffman of the UC Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will discuss the discovery of new chemical elements and the problems associated with identifying them when only a few atoms of very short half-life are produced.