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February 4, 2014
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History of Science: Former Cornell President Discovered Chemical Element

By The Cornell Daily Sun | February 4, 2014
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Sun File PhotoCorson the chemist | Before he became the eighth president of Cornell, Dale Corson worked on a team at Berkeley which discovered astatine, number 85 on the periodic table.



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