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(link is external)

Isotope ranking reveals leading labs
Eugenie Samuel Reich
Nature News, October 4, 2011(link is external)

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

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

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

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(link is external)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The original papers describing the discovery of the isotopes of all elements were published over several years in the journal Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables (ADNDT).

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Learn more about how this work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics(link is external).

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Michigan State University (MSU) operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science(link is external) (DOE SC), with financial support from and furthering the mission of the DOE‑SC Office of Nuclear Physics. FRIB is registered to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and ISO 45001.

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