Finding Element 43 Sparknotes
It was a race to finding element 43; A race that would earn honor to any scientist, in The disappearing spoon a book written about chemistry specifically the periodic table which most notified in Chapter 8 From physics to biology. In this chapter Kean opens it up by talking about the competition to finding element forty three great scientist such as Segre,Pauling,Glenn Seaborg and Al Ghiorso brought the hunt for the unknown element to a new level of sophistication.Many scientist searched for element 43 and failed;Chapter 8 also looks at the discovery of DNA. Kean starts out the chapter by describing the the competition to find missing elements on the periodic table. In 1869
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Fermi had announced that he had discovered element ninety-three neptunium. However he really induced uranium fission long before anyone else realized it. But, Fermi had already won the Nobel Prize for his work. Segre felt responsible for the mistake because his job was to identify new elements. He even remembered reading a paper about the possibility of fission. Segre continued to look for element ninety-three, but Edwin McMillan beat him to it and called element ninety-three neptunium. Pauling's mistake may have been even more embarrassing. Pauling thought he could uncover the mystery of DNA. He put the nucleic acids on the outside of the sugar-phosphate backbone(like a spine), he also thought that DNA had a triple helix. This was because he looked at a dead sample of DNA, rather than a wet one Pauling wanted gis model to be the first accurate model of DNA so he printed it quickly. Another scientist named Rosalind Franklin looked at a wet sample of DNA and realized it had two strands. Watson and crick Two students from Cambridge University looked at Pauling's paper and recognized it. They had made a similar model with a triple helix and knew Pauling was wrong,Watson and Crick looked over Franklin's work and made a new model with a double helix. They were correct and by the time Pauling had
Fermi had announced that he had discovered element ninety-three neptunium. However he really induced uranium fission long before anyone else realized it. But, Fermi had already won the Nobel Prize for his work. Segre felt responsible for the mistake because his job was to identify new elements. He even remembered reading a paper about the possibility of fission. Segre continued to look for element ninety-three, but Edwin McMillan beat him to it and called element ninety-three neptunium. Pauling's mistake may have been even more embarrassing. Pauling thought he could uncover the mystery of DNA. He put the nucleic acids on the outside of the sugar-phosphate backbone(like a spine), he also thought that DNA had a triple helix. This was because he looked at a dead sample of DNA, rather than a wet one Pauling wanted gis model to be the first accurate model of DNA so he printed it quickly. Another scientist named Rosalind Franklin looked at a wet sample of DNA and realized it had two strands. Watson and crick Two students from Cambridge University looked at Pauling's paper and recognized it. They had made a similar model with a triple helix and knew Pauling was wrong,Watson and Crick looked over Franklin's work and made a new model with a double helix. They were correct and by the time Pauling had