Over half of my tenants right now are majoring in physics or chemistry, so it is time for a little Berkeley chemistry quiz.

HOW MANY CHEMICAL ELEMENTS WERE DISCOVERED AT THESE WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES?

Duke. 0 elements
Harvard. 0 elements

Johns Hopkins. 0 elements

M.I.T. 0 elements

Princeton. 0 elements

Stanford. 0 elements

U.C.L.A. 0 elements

University of Chicago. Maybe 2 elements, maybe none. See note below.

University of Maryland. My alma mater. 0 elements.

University of Virginia. 0 elements

Yale. 0 elements

University of California at Berkeley. 16 elements. Technetium #43, Astatine #85, Neptunium #93, Plutonium #94, Americium #95, Curium #96, Berkelium #97, Californium #98, Einsteinium #99, Fermium #100, Mendelevium #101, Nobelium $102, Lawrencium #103, Rutherfordium #104, Hahnium #105, Seaborgium #106.

Note: Americium and Curium were first identified at the Argonne National Lab at the University of Chicago during World War 2 by a team of scientists from U.C. Berkeley led by Glenn Seaborg.