The TAN 19 conference, held in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, August 25 to 30, 2019, was the sixth in the series of international conferences dedicated to recent achievements and developments in experiments and theory of the chemistry and physics of transactinide elements.
The scientific program covered experimental and theoretical aspects of synthesis of the superheavy elements, nuclear reactions, nuclear structure, chemistry, atomic properties, and related topics.
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Special Symposium "International Year of the Periodic Table"
The conference opened with a special symposium in honor of the International Year of the Periodic Table.
The United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO proclaimed 2019 as the "International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019)" on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. The extension of the Periodic Table by new chemical elements was at the heart of the TAN conference.
The symposium program included presentations by discoverers of elements 107 to 118 and by directors of the laboratories at which these elements were discovered.
Further presentations looked back in time and illustrated the spreading of the concept of the periodic table, discussed the transformation of the concept of chemical elements, or addressed questions associated with the placing of new elements in the periodic table in historical times.
The symposium was completed by welcome addresses of the presidents of national and international chemical and physics organizations IUPAC, IUPAP, GDCh, and DPG.
Photo: Klaus Schreiber, Wilhelmshaven
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