Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman has been on a journey around the world to discover how new elements are made
Superheavy is perfectly timed for the UN’s International Year of the Periodic Table, celebrating 150 years since Dmitri Mendeleev first organised all the known elements into groups with similar chemical properties. The periodic table grew steadily after Mendeleev introduced it. Since studies of nuclear chemistry in the 1940s, it has been augmented by elements beyond those found in nature, which end around uranium (element 92). Chapman gives the first accessible, book-length account of this story, bringing us right up to date in the quest to create new kinds of atom.