Sentences with phrase «says nuclear chemist»
«Every once in a rare while, a calcium ion fused with an americium nucleus, and we got an element 115 isotope,» says nuclear chemist Ken Moody, who led the Livermore team.
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The RIKEN team now makes a «very strong case,» says Christoph Düllmann, a nuclear chemist at the GSI nuclear research lab in Darmstadt, Germany.
«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,» says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
«Discovering a new element is, in essence, the holy grail for nuclear chemists,» said Sudowe.