10.6084/m9.figshare.1595995.v1
Athanasios Psaltis
Athanasios
Psaltis
Periodic Table of Nucleosynthesis
figshare
2015
nuclear astrophysics
nuclear physics
Nuclear Chemistry
Applied Physics
Quantum Mechanics
2015-11-11 16:23:34
Figure
https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Periodic_Table_of_Nucleosynthesis/1595995
<p>Matter is made of atoms. One can reasonably wonder how and where have all these atoms created?</p>
<p>Our quest to explain the origin of the elements started in the late 1950's by two famous papers independently - E. M. Burbidge <em>et al.</em>, Rev. Mod. Phys. <strong>29</strong>, 547 (1957) & A.G.W. Cameron, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. <strong>69</strong>, 201 (1957) - whose authors claimed that the elements are created in astrophysical environments.</p>
<p>This is the well-known periodic table of elements, but each element is labeled by the environment that is created (e.g Supernova explosion etc.).</p>
<p>The data concerning the enviroments were from NAU Meteorite Laboratory and the LaTeX code was modified. The original can be found here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/periodic-table-of-chemical-elements/</p>