He notes that the first successes for this approach came with Fermi’s discovery of transuranic elements, but it also provided the breakthrough in the search for the four elements lighter than uranium still missing from the periodic table** — element 43 had been made in the cyclotron at Berk...
which encourages better funded labs to collaborate than compete[2]. My PhD work was entirely based around synthetic chemistry, but I had a BSc in molecular biology and biochemistry. There aren’t very many chemists that work at the interface of microbiology and organic chemistry, and I thought...