“I was going home to dinner, past a shallow pool, which was green with springing grass… when it occurred to me that I heard the dream of the toad. It rang through and filled all the air, though I had not heard it once. And I turned my companion’s attention to it, but he did [...]

“There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (new breath needed!)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
“There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium [...]

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg died February 25, at the age of 86. Among his accomplishments were the discovery of [...]