Discovery of Nuclides Project

Below is a list of publications related to the Discovery of Nuclides Project.

From isotopes to the stars
Michael Thoennessen and Bradley Sherrill
Nature 473 (2011) 25

Isotope ranking reveals leading labs
Eugenie Samuel Reich
Nature News, October 4, 2011

Seven days: 7-13 October 2011
Trend Watch: Isotope ranking reveals leading labs
Nature 478 (2011) 160

The Discoverers of the Ruthenium Isotopes
Profile on page 258
Platinum Metals Rev. 55 (2011) 251

Trends in isotope discovery
M. Thoennessen
CERN Courier December 2011, p. 62 (2011)

The role of women in the discovery of isotopes
M. Thoennessen
Proc. 4th Int. Conf. of Women in Physics 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1517 (2013) 197

The discovery of the nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Nuclear Physics News International 22 (2012) No. 3, p. 19

Current status and future potential of nuclide discoveries
M. Thoennessen
Rep. Prog. Phys. 76 (2013) 056301
arXiv:1304.3267

2013 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 23 (2014) 1430002
arXiv:1402.1663

2014 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 24 (2015) 1530002
arXiv:1501.06761

Discoveries of isotopes by fission
M. Thoennessen
Pramana 85 (2015) 457

2015 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 25 (2016) 1630004
arXiv:1606.00456

Discovery of Nuclei at and Beyond the Proton Dripline
M. Thoennessen
Nucl. Phys. Rev. 33 (2016) 117

The Discovery of Isotopes - A Complete Compilation
M. Thoennessen
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland (2016)

2016 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 26 (2017) 1730003
arXiv:1704.07169

Fusion and the Discovery of Isotopes
M. Thoennessen
EPJ Web Conf. 163 (2017) 00060

2017 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 27 (2018) 1830002
arXiv:1802.03612

2018 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 28 (2019) 1930002
arXiv:1903.03224

2022 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 32 (2023) 2330001
arXiv:2303.01958

2023 update of the discoveries of nuclides
M. Thoennessen
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 33 (2023) 2430001
arXiv:2403.17750

Isotope facilities aim to complete the nuclear chart
M. Thoennessen and A. Gade
Nature Physics 20 (2024) 1844

Discovery of nuclear isomers
M. Thoennessen and J. Chen
At. Data Nucl. Data Tables 167 (2026) 101767

Nuclear Isomer Discovery Database Released
M. Thoennessen and J. Chen
Nuclear Physics News 36(1) (2026) 34

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