Here is the Element Quiz Question:

The Question:
This element is named after the "Father of the Periodic Table". Which
element is being described?

The Answer:
The element is Mendelevium (Md)! Mendelevium was named after Russian
chemist Dmitri Mendeleev who developed the Periodic table we use today. Md
is one of the transuranic elements and was discovered by Albert Ghiorso and
his team at Cal Berkeley in 1955 by bombarding einsteinium-253 with helium
ions in the cyclotron.  Ghiorso's team irradiated plutonium for one year to
produce one billion atoms of einsteinium-253 target which had 3 week half
life once purified - basically they had a one week window in their attempt
to produce Md ( and we think we have ugly project deadlines).

An interesting bit of trivia:

"We thought it fitting that there be an element named for the Russian
chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who had developed the periodic table. In nearly
all our experiments discovering transuranium elements, we'd depended on his
method of predicting chemical properties based on the element's position in
the table. But in the middle of the Cold War, naming an element for a
Russian was a somewhat bold gesture that did not sit well with some
American critics.[7]. Glenn T. Seaborg"

[7]  Mendelevium - Elementymology & Elements Multidict. Peter van der Krogt.


The winner of the quiz  is Louis Hart, Compunetics and will get the
services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.

So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:

Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
Week 3 John Burke
Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp

Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
- I have a bunch of jobs lined up commissioning our brand new lab in our
new swanky factory.  Who have I got so I can get security clearance?

Week 8 Leland Woodall
- Kloumpios assisted greatly with the clearing of my driveway on Monday.
It was good to see the little guy again!

Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
- assisted with ???

Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
- Tell Clumpy and Kloumpios to get on the first available flight to JFK, I
live a mile from the JFK AirTrain station in Howard Beach, NY. Clumpy and
Kloumpios can help me prepare some flammability burn test samples for an
FAA project that I'm working on. After that they can go fishing in Jamaica
Bay and catch some dinner.

Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
- assisted with ???

I hope everyone has a awesome week!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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