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The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and indeed to the general public. This is what the present work aims at. It tells the story or rather parts of the story, of how physicists and chemists created elements heavier than uranium or searched for them in nature. And it does so with an emphasis on the frequent discovery and naming disputes concerning the synthesis of very heavy elements. Moreover, it calls attention to the criteria which scientists have adopted for what it means to have discovered a new element. In this branch of modern science it may be more appropriate to speak of creation instead of discovery. The work will be of interest to scientists as well as to scholars studying modern science from a meta-perspective.

Transuranium elements. --- Superheavy elements. --- Physics. --- History. --- Nuclear chemistry. --- Chemistry --- Philosophy and science. --- Nuclear physics. --- Heavy ions. --- Hadrons. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- History of Chemistry. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Nuclear Chemistry. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Science. --- SHEs (Superheavy elements) --- Super-heavy elements --- Super-transactinides --- Transactinide elements --- Transactinides --- Heavy elements --- Radioactive substances --- Transplutonium elements --- Transuranic elements --- Actinide elements --- Uranium --- Chemistry-History. --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Chemistry, Nuclear --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Chemistry—History. --- Science and philosophy --- Ions --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics

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546.654 --- 546.79 --- Actinide elements --- Rare earth metals --- #WSCH:AAS2 --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals --- Actinide series --- Actinides --- Actinoid elements --- Heavy elements --- Radioactive substances --- Lanthanum La --- Actinides in general --- Actinide elements. --- Rare earth metals. --- 546.79 Actinides in general --- 546.654 Lanthanum La