Curium
Helps identify curium among transuranium elements.
Role range: 1915-2010
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Albert Ghiorso Biography and Timeline
Follow Albert Ghiorso through 6 dated historical records for United States of America.
Albert Ghiorso, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1945–1970Years on this page
1945
1952
Discovery of Einsteinium
Helps identify einsteinium in debris from the first thermonuclear explosion, adding element 99 to the periodic table.
Discovery of Fermium
Helps identify fermium in thermonuclear-test debris, filling atomic number 100 in the actinide series.
1955
Discovery of Mendelevium
Helps produce and identify mendelevium, element 101, which is named in honour of Dmitri Mendeleev.
1961
Discovery of Lawrencium
Helps identify lawrencium, element 103, extending the actinide series to the end of the seventh period's inner transition sequence.
1970
Element 105 Production
Leads a Berkeley team that produces and studies atoms assigned to element 105, extending the transactinide region of the periodic table.
Records, sources and methodology
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