the Periodic Table in Motion: Where Will It End

Dr. Heino Nitsche
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Heino Nitsche, the founding director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, conducts research into the heaviest elements and their properties. Recently the team discovered six new isotopes, reaching in an unbroken alpha decay chain from element 114 down to 104, rutherfordium. This is a major step toward better understanding how to explore the region of enhanced stability thought to lie in the vicinity of element 114 - and possibly beyond. [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]