Albert Ghiorso was an American nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. His research career spanned six decades, from the early 1940s to the late 1990s.
Albert Ghiorso around 1970
Ghiorso updates a periodic table in 1961 with the newly discovered element lawrencium while co-discoverers Robert Latimer, Torbjorn Sikkeland and Almon Larsh look on.
Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the Bay Area. The city is built on an informal archipelago in San Francisco Bay, consisting of Alameda Island, Bay Farm Island and Coast Guard Island, along with other smaller islands. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 78,280.
Image: St. Joseph's Basilica (Alameda, CA) (cropped)
Image: Alameda City Hall (Alameda, CA) 2
Image: Alameda High School (cropped)
Image: USA Alameda Twin Towers United Methodist Church 1 (cropped)