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 | | (Alfred Nobel, discoverer of dynamite) Nobelium was unambiguiously discovered andidentified in April 1958 at Berkeley by A. Ghiorso, T. Sikkeland, J.R. Walton, and G.T.Seaborg, who used a new double-recoil technique. |
 | | In 1957 workers in the United States, Britain, and Sweden announced the discovery of anisotope of element 102 with a 10-minute half-life at 8.5 MeV, as a result of bombarding244Cm with 13C nuclei. |
 | | The acceptance of the name was premature because both Russian and American efforts nowcompletely rule out the possibility of any isotope of Element 102 having a half-life of 10min in the vicinity of 8.5 MeV. |
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