Hi Louis - well, it is a privilege for Clumpy and Kloumpios to have the
honor of helping with the office wind down!  I get to be the first to
congratulate you on a well deserved retirement and I want to thank you for
all of the technical assistance you have provided to me when I was stuck on
a problem. I hope your next adventure is successful and rewarding!

Dave

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Louis Hart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dave, this victory is the capstone, the gilding on my career...end of this
> month I'm officially retiring. Clumpy and Kloumpios help will be welcome in
> clearing out the office. Not sure if I will stick on TechNet or not...it's
> been a big part of my life for most of the past 20 years but I may go on to
> do something completely different...  Louis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 2:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
>
> 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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>