1920–2006
Kenneth Street Jr.
Discovered californium in 1950.
Element
98CfCalifornium
1950
In 1950 Stanley Thompson, Kenneth Street Jr., Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg, at Berkeley, fired alpha particles at a few micrograms of curium and made about 5,000 atoms of a new element. They named it californium, after the state and its university.
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