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Einsteinium: 100 years after Einstein’s Nobel Prize, researchers reveal chemical secrets of element that bears his name – The Conversation UK
The element was discovered in the fallout of a thermonuclear blast.
A century ago, an upstart German physicist by the name of Albert Einstein turned the scientific world on its head with his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which proved light to be both a particle and a wave. Awarded the 1921 Nobel prize in physics for his work, Einstein would later contribute to theories related to nuclear fusion and fission arguably paving the way for the invention and detonation of nuclear weapons, as well as nuclear energy.
And so, when elements previously unknown to science…
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