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110 Resolutions Part 2 [1] (2017)

handle is hein.ssl/sstn0275 and id is 1 raw text is: Side qf 7JJnjessee SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1 By Senator Haile; Mr. Speaker McNally; Senators Dickerson, Yager, Harper, Yarbro, Bailey, Beavers, Bell, Bowling, Briggs, Crowe, Gardenhire, Green, Gresham, Harris, Hensley, Jackson, Johnson, Kelsey, Ketron, Kyle, Lundberg, Massey, Niceley, Norris, Overbey, Roberts, Southerland, Stevens, Tate, Tracy, Watson and Madam Speaker Harwell A RESOLUTION to commend Dr. Joseph H. Hamilton for his pivotal role in the discovery of element 117 and its naming as tennessine. WHEREAS, it is fitting that the members of this General Assembly should pause to specially recognize those citizens whose laudable efforts have contributed to significant scientific breakthroughs; and WHEREAS, one such person who evinces the greatest integrity in all his chosen endeavors is Dr. Joseph H. Hamilton, who played a pivotal role in the discovery of element 117 and its naming as tennessine; and WHEREAS, a renowned professor of physics at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Hamilton officially proposed that the new element on the periodic table be named tennessine in recognition of the significant contributions made by Tennessee research centers Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL), Vanderbilt University (VU), and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT-K); and WHEREAS, the impetus behind the discovery of element 117 grew out of a 2005 meeting at Vanderbilt University in which Dr. Yuri Oganessian, leader of the team from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, asked Dr. Hamilton, with whom he had collaborated in nuclear research for fifteen years, to join him in obtaining a Berkelium (Bk) target to search for the new element with atomic number 117; upon visiting ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor, they learned that the most economical way to produce Bk was during the production of Californium (Cf); and WHEREAS, in August 2008, when Dr. Hamilton learned the production of the Bk-Cf material was underway at ORNL, Dr. Hamilton arranged a collaboration with Dr. Oganessian and Dr. James Roberto, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, ORNL, to discover element 117; he subsequently invited scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, California, to join the collaboration. If the venture proved successful, it was proposed by Dr. Hamilton that the new element be named in honor of the State of Tennessee; and WHEREAS, working with Dr. Hamilton at Vanderbilt University was his colleague Dr. Akunuri V. Ramayya, who traveled with Dr. Hamilton to Russia to participate in experiments and collaborated in the analysis of data and in the writing of the scientific research findings; and WHEREAS, superheavy element research conducted in Tennessee included the production and chemical separation of unique actinide target materials at ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor and Radiochemical Engineering Development Center, the production of which contributed to the discovery and confirmation of six superheavy elements and completion of the seventh row of the periodic table; and WHEREAS, the discovery of tennessine, along with elements 113, 114, 115, 116 and 118, provides evidence for the long sought island of stability, a concept that predicted nearly fifty years ago increased stabilities and much slower rates of decay for superheavy elements with higher numbers of neutrons and protons than those previously known; and

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