New isotopes project website

For some years Michael Thoennessen at Michigan State University has developed and curated a database of isotope discovery - i.e. when, where, how and by whom was each isotope of each element discovered.   He has just emailed out about a revamp of the website with new design and new features. The site is here. 

 One of the new features (at least, I think this is new) is that you can search discoveries on various fields.  I tried searching for my name ("P. D. Stevenson") and lo and behold you can find the four isotopes that I "helped" discover.  By helped, I mean I was coauthor on the discovery paper, as I contributed to the theoretical analysis.  I didn't set foot in the lab where the experiment actually took place.

Here is the copy-and-paste of the results table:

Search results:found 4 isotopes

In the table below click on an isotope symbol for more information about its discovery. When quoting the abstracts please cite the abstract as: “FRIB Nuclear Data Group, Discovery of Nuclides Project, https://doi.org/10.11578/frib/2279152”.
Newly discovered isotopes will be included after the references are entered in the NSR database.

Isotope	First Author	Lab	Country	Year	Reference
155Ta	R. D. Page	Jyväskylä	Finland	2007	2007PA27
157W	L. Bianco	Jyväskylä	Finland	2010	2010BI03
159Re	D. T. Joss	Jyväskylä	Finland	2006	2006JO10
161Os	L. Bianco	Jyväskylä	Finland	2010	2010BI03

 

Bye bye 12BB03

 Last week I was on a work trip to the USA and on my first day there I got an email from my employer telling me that I have to move offices and I should come and get the key of my newly assigned office.  It came a bit out of the blue and now that I'm back I find some of my colleagues have already moved and I have started the process of clearing out my office.  I'm using the opportunity to get rid of some of the stuff I have accumulated over the 20 years or so I have been in here.  It's a long time in anyone's life, and longer really than almost any other constant in my life - from children to partners to where I live, I'm in a different situation than I was 20 years ago.  In some sense I'm saying goodbye to the longest-lived part of my life that I saw on a near-daily basis.  On the other hand, it's only a room, and my employers can reasonably ask me to move to another room. 

Here are some of the things I have come across and thrown away:

My stash of used train tickets that I kept for no good reason.
Many memories (good and bad) evoked from looking at the journeys.

Once upon a time I used paper diaries from the Institute of Physics
to plan my (work)life.  Here is the week in 2003 where there was going to
be a retirement dinner for Prof Ron Johnson.  I suppose it was moved(?) so
I crossed it out.

I have a bunch of Open University material donated
to me by someone I used to tutor.  After he got his degree
he didn't want to keep the material and I have kept it all in a box
ever since.