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Pequot Lakes' first lumberyard predates the city.

Pequot Lakes' first lumberyard predates the city.

Sun Apr 14 2002 at 10:01:51 A name proposed for element 43, now known as technetium, after its reported discovery in 1925. It was named after Masuria, the region of Poland from which the mazurka is also named. The symbol given was Ma. Masurium and rhenium were found by a team consisting of Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke (later his wife Ida Noddack-Tacke or Ida Noddack), and Otto Berg, in the X-ray spectra resulting from electron excitation of ores consisting mainly of niobium and platinum but also crucially containing uranium. Rhenium was accepted, since it could be reproduced in quantity, but mas...

By Rachel Brazil2021-05-11T08:54:00+01:00 The German chemist discovered one element and may have been the first to suggest nuclear fission – but her legacy is troubled, as Rachel Brazil discovers ‘We want a heroine or a martyr’ when we read about forgotten women scientists, says Brigitte van Tiggelen, the Science History Institute’s director of European operations. Ida Noddack does not fit that description. Her legacy is complicated by her work for the academic regime set up by the Nazi government in 1930s Germany, which likely clouded post-war judgement of her work. But even before t...