Chapter 8
Summary:In chapter 8, Kean decides to fill the chapter with the race to fill in the periodic table like in previous chapters. Kean goes into history about element 43: technetium. Being "discovered" by several German chemists, this element was known as "the loch ness monster" due it not being actually discovered until 1937. It's discoverer's being two Italians, Emilio Segre and Linus Pauling. Pauling was also in the science of biology where he denied the wrong of his "triple-helix" dna strands. Instead of striving to find discoveries, the scientists in this chapter just wanted credit.
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