Chemical Element: einsteinium

(Modern Latin: chemical element; named for Albert Einstein; radioactive metal)

Chemical-Element Information

Symbol: Es
Atomic number: 99
Year discovered: 1952

Discovered by: Albert Ghiorso (born July 15, 1915) and co-workers; at Argonne, Los Alamos, New Mexico and the University of California at Berkeley.

Einsteinium was identified by Ghiorso and others at the University of California in Berkeley, California, in 1952.
It was found in radioactive debris from the first large thermonuclear bomb explosion, which took place in the Pacific on November, 1952.
In 1961, a sufficient amount of einsteinium was produced to permit separation of a macroscopic amount of isotope Es.

Name in other languages:

French: einsteinium

German: Einsteinium

Italian: einsteinio

Spanish: einsteinio

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