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>