☢ #Caesium-137, a product of #uranium-235 fission, is one of the world's most widely used #radionuclides and is the inspiration for my nick.

Did you know that Margaret Melhase Fuchs, a #chemistry undergraduate at UC #Berkeley, discovered Cs-137 in 1941, but was prevented from pursuing a PhD?

More information about this interesting woman who has been repressed from history:
📎 https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/40/4/18N

📎 https://www.chemistryworld.com/culture/margaret-melhase-fuchs-and-the-radioactive-isotope/4015340.article

#ManhattanProject #Melhase #radioactivity #Seaborg #WomanInScience