Resources if you want to read more about the “superheavy” elements, the ones at the end of the Periodic Table with atomic numbers with atomic numbers greater than 103. BOOKS …
This post will highlight some recent works discussing the scarcity of various elements on the periodic table, including one that caught some people by surprise because it’s one of the …
With the start of the new academic year, here are some recent additions for the popular science collection. You can find these and the rest of the ~600 books on the …
In this post, we’ll highlight other representations of the periodic system. “Developing a Modern Periodic Table: From Spirals to the Stars” highlights a few of these representations, including a 3D …
The first name that comes to mind is most likely Marie Skłodowska Curie, for her pioneering research in radioactivity, her co-discovery of the elements radium and polonium, and her Nobel Prizes. …
Need some summer reading? Start with some of our latest popular science books. You can find these and the rest of the ~500 books on the main (2nd) floor in …
Here we’ll highlight some articles and posts about Julius Lothar Meyer, whose first table of the elements was published five years before Mendeleev’s. Yet it’s Mendeleev’s name that is most …
In this second in our series celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table, we’ll highlight the early versions developed by Dmitri Mendeleev. The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography offers …
Congratulations to Heng Liu, this year’s winner for “Best Use of the Engineering Literature,” an award given out by our engineering librarians every year at the Jacobs School of Engineering …
Negotiations Update as of March 16, 2021 Read the latest update on UC’s open access negotiations with Elsevier and other publishers. Background The University of California (UC) is currently in …
