 Discovery Information |
| Who:
G.T.Seaborg
, S.G.Tompson,
A. Ghiorso
|
| When: 1949 |
| Where: United States |
|
| Name Origin |
| After Berkeley the home town of the University of California. |
|
| Sources |
| Some compounds have been made and studied. Made by bombarding americium with alpha particles. |
|
| Uses |
| None. |
|
| Notes |
| Weighable amounts of 249Bk (
half-life
314 days) make it possible to determine some of its properties using macroscopic quantities. |
| Berkelium is a radioactive rare earth metal. It is named after the University of California at Berkeley (USA). Apparently, berkelium tends to accumulate in the skeletal system. |
| It is of no commercial importance and only a few of its compounds are known. |
