First International Nuclear Physics Conference! Li Qiwei's World-Shaking Plan! Completing the Periodic Table!

July 25, 1928.

Irène and her husband published their second paper on Transuranium Elements.

They used the coprecipitation method, employing element 57, Lanthanum, as a precipitating agent, and successfully precipitated "Transuranium Elements."

However, when they analyzed its physical and chemical properties, they discovered that these Transuranium Elements behaved more like element 89, Actinium.

The results differed slightly from the element 90, Thorium, described in their first paper.

The paper's release once again shook the field of nuclear physics.

"My God!"

"What are the young Curie couple trying to do?"

"Aren't they testing Transuranium Elements? Why are all the products now elements below uranium?"

"..."

For a time, the academic world buzzed with debate.

Yet before everyone could fully digest the news, Irène's third paper was published immediately afterward.

In this paper, she conducted a deeper study of the precipitated "Actinium element."

This time, she made an utterly astonishing discovery!

"New elements can continue to be separated from the Actinium element, which proves that it is not Actinium."

"But it can also form a coprecipitate with Lanthanum."

"Therefore, the most likely possibility is that this new element is some Isotope of element 57, Lanthanum."

"Of course, I still firmly believe that Transuranium Elements exist."

"Perhaps this is an Isotope of some entirely new Transuranium Element."

Whoosh!

The paper's publication instantly set off towering waves!

Element 92, uranium, had actually produced element 57, Lanthanum?

Wasn't that equivalent to splitting an Atomic Nucleus of uranium cleanly in two with a single stroke?

How was that possible?!

"My God!"

"Could a Neutron really blast such a heavy uranium Atomic Nucleus into two halves?"

"This is simply as fantastical as an Arabian Night's tale!"

"There must be something wrong with the young Curie couple's experiment."

This time, no one dared agree with them anymore.

Irène's