Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Literary musings on a News Item from a Lab: New, superheavy element to enter periodic table
When Thomas Gray wrote in his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. he was certainly not thinking of scientists working in sequestered laboratories, away from the …