| Foreword | |
| Radioactive Element 94 from Deuterons on Uranium | p. 11 |
| Radioactive Element 94 from Deuterons on Uranium | p. 12 |
| Properties of 94(239) | p. 13 |
| Search for Elements 94 and 93 in Nature. Presence of 94[superscript 239] in Pitchblende | p. 15 |
| Heavy Isotopes by Bombardment of Pu[superscript 239] | p. 18 |
| Search for New Heavy Isotopes | p. 19 |
| The Chemical and Radioactive Properties of the Heavy Elements | p. 20 |
| The New Element Americium (Atomic Number 95) | p. 24 |
| The New Element Curium (Atomic Number 96) | p. 53 |
| Preparation of Transplutonium Isotopes by Neutron Irradiation | p. 71 |
| The Isotopes of Americium | p. 72 |
| Element 97 | p. 73 |
| The New Element Berkelium (Atomic Number 97) | p. 74 |
| Element 98 | p. 83 |
| The New Element Californium (Atomic Number 98) | p. 84 |
| New Elements Einsteinium and Fermium, Atomic Numbers 99 and 100 | p. 91 |
| Transplutonium Elements in Thermonuclear Test Debris | p. 93 |
| Heavy Isotope Abundances in Mike Thermonuclear Device | p. 96 |
| New Element Mendelevium, Atomic Number 101 | p. 101 |
| Element No. 102 | p. 103 |
| Element 106 | p. 106 |
| Criteria for the Discovery of Chemical Elements | p. 108 |
| Radioactive Isotope of Protoactinium | p. 112 |
| Nuclear Properties of U[superscript 233]: A New Fissionable Isotope of Uranium | p. 113 |
| Production and Properties of U[superscript 232] and Pa[superscript 232] | p. 114 |
| The Uranium Isotope U[superscript 236] | p. 118 |
| Nuclear Properties of 93[superscript 237] | p. 119 |
| Production of Heavy Actinides from Interactions of [superscript 16]O, [superscript 18]O, [superscript 20]Ne, and [superscript 22]Ne with [superscript 248]Cm | p. 121 |
| Excitation Functions for Production of Heavy Actinides from Interactions of [superscript 40]Ca and [superscript 48]Ca Ions with [superscript 248]Cm | p. 128 |
| Actinide Production in Reactions of Heavy Ions with [superscript 248]Cm | p. 135 |
| Electronic Structure of the Heaviest Elements | p. 145 |
| Place in Periodic System and Electronic Structure of the Heaviest Elements | p. 149 |
| Prospects for Further Considerable Extension of the Periodic Table | p. 170 |
| The Periodic Table, Tortuous Path to Man-Made Elements | p. 179 |
| Radioactive Isotopes of Manganese, Iron and Cobalt | p. 197 |
| Long-Lived Radio Cobalt Isotopes | p. 198 |
| Radioactive Isotopes of Cobalt | p. 200 |
| Long-Lived Radioactive Fe[superscript 55] | p. 201 |
| Radioactive Iodine Isotopes | p. 202 |
| Nuclear Isomerism in Element 43 | p. 203 |
| Nuclear Isomerism in Element 43 | p. 204 |
| Artificial Radioactive Tracers: Applications to Chemistry and Medicine | p. 211 |
| Early Work with Radioisotopes | p. 217 |
| Twenty-five Years of Radioisotope Distribution and Utilization | p. 222 |
| The Radioisotopes Program in the Decade 1961-1971 | p. 224 |
| The Synthetic Actinides - From Discovery to Manufacture | p. 227 |
| The Most Useful Actinide Isotope: Americium-241 | p. 248 |
| The Transuranium Elements, Present Status | p. 256 |
| The Chemical Properties of Elements 94 and 93 | p. 280 |
| The Separation of Americium and Curium from the Rare Earth Elements | p. 287 |
| Chemical Properties of Berkelium | p. 290 |
| Chemical Properties of Californium | p. 293 |
| Chemical Properties of Elements 99 and 100 | p. 296 |
| Atom-at-a-Time Radiochemical Separations of the Heaviest Elements: Lawrencium Chemistry | p. 304 |
| Chemistry of the Transactinide Elements | p. 314 |
| Chemical Separation of Nuclear Isomers | p. 342 |
| Nuclear Isomerism and Chemical Separation of Isomers In Tellurium | p. 343 |
| Radioactive Tellurium: Further Production and Separation of Isomers | p. 344 |
| Mechanism of Nuclear Isomer Separation Process | p. 345 |
| An Ion-Exchange Study of Possible Hydridized 5f Bonding in the Actinides | p. 347 |
| Artificial Radioactivity as a Test for Minute Traces of Elements | p. 356 |
| The Distribution of Minute Amounts of Material between Liquid Phases | p. 359 |
| The First Use of Bismuth Phosphate for Separating Plutonium from Uranium and Fission Products | p. 363 |
| The First Nuclear Reactor, the Production of Plutonium and its Chemical Extraction | p. 372 |
| The Impact of Nuclear Chemistry | p. 375 |
| Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds of the Actinide Elements | p. 382 |
| Primary and Secondary Acids and Bases | p. 393 |
| Trinitrotriphenylmethide Ion as a Secondary and Primary Base | p. 402 |
| The Acidity of Aromatic Nitro Compounds toward Amines. The Effect of Double Chelation | p. 409 |
| The College of Chemistry in the G. N. Lewis Era: 1912-1916 | p. 412 |
| The Research Style of Gilbert N. Lewis, Acids and Bases | p. 415 |
| The (4n + 1) Radioactive Series: The Decay Products of U[superscript 233] | p. 427 |
| Artificial Collateral Chains to the Thorium and Actinium Families | p. 428 |
| Three Additional Collateral Alpha-Decay Chains | p. 430 |
| Further Work on Heavy Collateral Radioactive Chains | p. 431 |
| Alpha-Decay Systematics of the Heavy Elements | p. 434 |
| Relation between Half-Life and Energy in Alpha-Decay | p. 436 |
| Evidence for Subshell at N = 152 | p. 438 |
| Spontaneous Fission of U[superscript 234], Pu[superscript 236], Cm[superscript 240], and Cm[superscript 244] | p. 440 |
| Slow Neutron and Spontaneous-Fission Properties of Heavy Nuclei | p. 441 |
| Half-Life for Double Beta-Decay | p. 457 |
| Alpha-Decay in Isotopes of Atomic Number Less than 83 | p. 458 |
| Decay Properties of Pu[superscript 235], Pu[superscript 237], and a New Isotope Pu[superscript 233] | p. 459 |
| New Isotope [superscript 242]Bk | p. 464 |
| Nuclear Transformations in the New High Energy Ranges | p. 478 |
| High Energy Spallation and Fission Products of Uranium | p. 482 |
| High-Energy Proton Spallation-Fission of Uranium | p. 484 |
| Tantalum Spallation and Fission Induced by 340-MeV Protons | p. 498 |
| Fission of Medium Weight Elements | p. 516 |
| Spallation-Fission Competition in Heaviest Elements; Helium-Ion-Induced Reactions in Plutonium Isotopes | p. 525 |
| Spallation-Fission Competition in Heavy-Element Reactions: Th[superscript 232] + He[superscript 4] and U[superscript 233] + d | p. 539 |
| Spallation-Fission Competition in Astatine Compound Nuclei Formed by Heavy-Ion Bombardment | p. 550 |
| Mass-Yield Distributions in the Reaction of [superscript 84]Kr Ions with [superscript 238]U | p. 556 |
| Mass Yield Distributions in the Reaction of [superscript 136]Xe Ions with [superscript 238]U | p. 560 |
| Mass Distribution in the Reaction of 240 MeV [superscript 12]C with [superscript 197]Au | p. 564 |
| Search for Superheavy Elements in the Bombardment of [superscript 248]Cm with [superscript 48]Ca | p. 576 |
| Superheavy Elements: A Crossroads | p. 581 |
| Attempts to Produce Superheavy Elements by Fusion of [superscript 48]Ca with [superscript 248]Cm in the Bombarding Energy Range of 4.5-5.2 MeV/u | p. 588 |
| Target Residue Mass and Charge Distributions in Relativistic Heavy Ion Reactions | p. 592 |
| Target Residues from the Reaction of 8 GeV [superscript 20]Ne with [superscript 181]Ta and [superscript 197]Au | p. 601 |
| Uranium Target Fragmentation by Intermediate and High Energy [superscript 12]C and [superscript 20]Ne Ions | p. 617 |
| Total Projectile Kinetic Energy Scaling in Energetic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions | p. 631 |
| Heavy Residue Spectra in the Interaction of 85A MeV [superscript 12]C with [superscript 197]Au | p. 638 |
| Changes in Target Fragmentation Mechanisms with Increasing Projectile Energy in Intermediate Energy Nuclear Collisions | p. 656 |
| Fragmentation of [superscript 197]Au by 21 MeV/nucleon [superscript 129]Xe | p. 671 |
| Appendix | p. 679 |
| Author Index | p. 695 |
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