The heaviest atoms ever seen. (Yuri Lazarev looks for relative stability in transuranic elements in Dubna, Russia)

The Economist (US) | May 7, 1994 | Copyright

YURI LAZAREV and his team at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions are no strangers to the idea that things fall apart. The country and system that set up their laboratory in Dubna, north of Moscow, did; the atoms they create in their machines do. The group itself could. But as spring comes to their wooded campus, the researchers are hoping to find an island of stability, a Fiddler's Green where atoms tarry awhile before flying apart and where Russian research is recognised as something more than the final morbid twitchings of Soviet science.

The island is to be ...

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