My friends

My friends aren't as cool as me, I know, so they don't have pages on here like me... but I will mention them as they are so dear to me! 

Element friends: Fermium (nickname: Fm 100) They're my closest sister actually as we were both discovered simultaneously in 1952 in the radioactive debris of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test... We were both named after famous physicists, by the way! Isn't that cool? Holmium (nickname: Ho 67) My neighbor who lives right above me on the periodic table (more specifically, in the actinide series, actually...). We're both similar in chemical behaviors and predominantly form +3 ions in solutions! Californium (nickname: Cf, 98) My next door neighbor, Cf and Fm both live right beside me in the actinide series! We share similar metallic and radioactive properties due to that! Isn't that cool? 

Element parents: Uranium (nickname: U, 92) More specifically Uranium-238... they were the original starting material in the Ivy Mike explosion that absorbed multiple neutrons to form me! Plutonium (nickname: Pu, 94) More specifically Plutonium-239... who is commonly used as a starting target in modern nuclear reactors to breed heavier elements such as myself! Curcium (nickname: Cm, 96) and Cf, 98 both act as intermediate stepping-stone elements during the multi-year neutron-capture process used to produce me at my current home facilities like Oak Ridge National Laboratory!

Element daughters: Mendelevium (nickname: Md, 101) I'm used as a target material to combine heavier elements such as Md! In 1955, I was bombarded with helium nuclei (aka alpha particles) to discover my daughter! Berkelium (nickname: Bk, 97) and Cf, 98 (who is here a lot, huh?) A bit of a TW here for trauma dumping I'm unstable... my isotopes decay... that creates them, though! Due to the alpha and beta decay!

Famous scientists friends: Albert Einstein! He didn't contribute to my discovery... but I was named in his honor due to his E=mc^2 which underpins nuclear science! Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, Stanley G. Thompson, Gregory R. Choppin, Bernard G. Harvey, Paul R. Fields and Sherman Fried, Roderick W. Spence, Burris B. Cunningham, and Rebecca J. Abergel are all awesome chemists that helped with my discovery and research as well!