(1) A tiny sample of einsteinium - 253 was bombarded with alpha particles in the university's 60-inch cyclotron.(2) I don't know how Albert would have felt about this, but the element was named einsteinium , in his honor.(3) All isotopes of einsteinium are radioactive, the most stable being einsteinium - 252 with a half life of 20.47 days.(4) They were named after two of the century's most creative physicists: einsteinium and fermium.(5) Atomic number 101 is a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles.
