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
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Clickable chart of nuclides
View the chart of nuclides on NuDat, from the National Nuclear Data Center.
Learn about the most recent isotope discoveries.
View tables of the top authors, laboratories, countries, and journals.
Learn about the guidelines used to determine the claim of discovery of a nuclide.
Browse a list of publications related to the Discovery of Nuclides Project.
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).
Learn more about how this work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics.
