Berkelium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Bk and atomic number 97. It is a member of the actinide and transuranium element series. It is named after the city of Berkeley, California, th
Berkelium metal
The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939
22 milligrams of berkelium (as nitrate) prepared at HFIR in 2009 at a cost of approximately one million dollars, used for the synthesis of tennessine in JINR
Tennessine is a synthetic element; it has symbol Ts and atomic number 117. It has the second-highest atomic number and the joint-highest atomic mass of all known elements, and is the penultimate eleme
Berkelium
…during a 250-day irradiation period and then purified for a further 90 days at Oak Ridge in 2009. This sample was used to synthesize the new element tennessine for the first time in 2009 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia, after it was bombarded with calcium-48 ions for 150 days. This was the…
Main campus of Hamilton's workplace, Vanderbilt University, one of the institutions named as co-discoverers of tennessine