poem “Neptunium, just in time”, a Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem for learning about the element #93, Neptunium (Np), which is literally abut how Enrico Fermi (possibly erroneously) won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize w/ neutron irradiation making newly-discovered radioactive elements like Neptunium - but the weird and ironic thing is that he & his Jewish wife left for Sweden for the Nobel win ceremony literally 1 day before Germany’s Kristallnacht, which would have most certainly led to their death, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Neptumium, just in time
Janet Kuypers
1/25/22 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem
for element #93, Neptumium (Np)
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Enrico Fermi (possibly erroneously)
won the 1938 Nobel Peace Prize
w/ neutron irradiation making newly-discovered
radioactive elements like Neptunium.
He & his Jewish wife left for Sweden for the Nobel win
1 day before Germany’s Kristallnacht,
which could have led to their doom.

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