Phelps contributed to the discovery that filled in square 117 on the periodic table, creating tennesine (Ts), the second-heaviest known element on Earth.

How the first Black woman to help discover an element ‘claimed a seat at the periodic table’ By Charli Leevongcharoen , CNN 6 minute read ...

"As the first Black woman to be involved in the discovery of an element, she is an inspiration for the next generation of women and people of color in STEM," it said.

A section of the periodic table. Nitrogen (red) was thought to not have allotropes with similar structures to heavier elements in its group – phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth (green ...

Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to help discover a new periodic table element. "Taking a seat at the periodic table didn't happen overnight, it was actually a 20-year journey," she said.

It has a similar layout to the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, but instead, there are 90 African American history-makers."I wanted to represent our Black culture and I wanted to represent all ...

The Periodic Table of Black History features 90 prominent African Americans. From activists like Frederick Douglas and Rosa Parks to actors and actresses like Chadwick Boseman and Josephine Baker.

Modeled after the scientific Periodic Table of Elements many of us studied in school, Dana’s variation highlights 90 African American history makers, innovators, activists and scientists, both ...

How the first Black woman to help discover an element ‘claimed a seat at the periodic table’ By Charli Leevongcharoen , CNN 6 minute read ...

The scientist already had broken barriers when she joined an international mission to do something else unprecedented: Create Element 117.

By Charli Leevongcharoen, CNN As a kid, Clarice Phelps often turned to one image for inspiration. While other seventh graders hung ’90s pop band and movie posters on their walls, Phelps put up a ...

By Charli Leevongcharoen, CNN As a kid, Clarice Phelps often turned to one image for inspiration. While other seventh graders hung ’90s pop band and movie posters on their walls, Phelps put up a ...