97 | (247) |
Bk
[Rn] 5f9 7s2 |
Berkeley has its own little place in the Periodic Table — the transuranic actinide Berkelium. Hell yeah! How many other cities do you know that can write their address on the Periodic Table? Bk, Cf, Am.
Berkelium was discovered in 1949 by Thompson, Ghiorso, and Seaborg, physicists in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.