On this day in chemistry: 119 years ago (1902), Marie and Pierre Curie first purified radium, element 88. Yesterday in chemistry: 109 years ago (1912), Glenn Seaborg was born. He became famous for the discovery or co-discovery of ten "transuranic" elements (those with atomic numbers above 92), from plutonium through nobelium and "106" which was named seaborgium in his honor. My tie shows traditional chemistry lab equipment such as that used by the Curies. The periodic table in the background does not have boxes for radium or polonium, but it does show element 106, which was originally labeled "Unh" for unnilhexium.
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