What is Your Cosmic Connection to the Elements?
- Web Sites The chemical elements and the Periodic Table
- Magazines "We are all Star Stuff", Neil F. Comins, Astronomy Magazine, Jan 2001
- Video "The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays", 1957, directed by William T. Hurtz and Frank Capra, produced by Bell Labs as part of their Science Film series.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_chemical_elements - Properties of each of the elements, with information about their discovery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table - An extensive history of the periodic table.
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/ - The Education area of this web site for the Genesis mission contains a number of classroom materials on the periodic table and cosmic chemistry.
The Big Bang and Early Nucleosynthesis
http://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/ - The "Universe" section of this site for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe provides information on the Big Bang and nucleosynthesis
Spectra of Atoms
http://home.achilles.net/~jtalbot/data/elements/ - Emission line spectra of a wide range of atoms.
Life Cycles of Stars
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/lifecycles/stars.html
Cosmic Evolution from the Big Bang to Human Kind
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/
Cosmic Rays
Element building in stars.
"Tabling the Matter" by Jim Caddick, The Exploratorium Quarterly, Summer 1992.
Mendeleev and the development of the periodic table.
