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Congratulations!



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-----Original Message-----

From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls

Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 7:44 AM

To: [log in to unmask]

Subject: Re: [TN] Element Quiz Answer



Louis, I would have been the first to congratulate you and wish you well, but am sure the FEQAB would have disqualified me.





Doug Pauls

Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins



On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Bev Christian <[log in to unmask]>

wrote:



> Louis,

> I would like to be second in offering you congratulations on your 

> forthcoming retirement. I wish you all the best.

>

> Regards,

> Bev

>

> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.

>   Original Message

> From: Louis Hart

> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 6:27 PM

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Reply To: TechNet E-Mail Forum

> Subject: Re: [TN] Element Quiz Answer

>

> 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

> [log in to unmask]

>


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