Ten years later, this remarkably skilled woman discovered the much sought after element francium. As a result, she was encouraged to study for a degree, and then for her PhD. Despite the fact that her ...

But it was not to be. Estimates suggest that there is only about 30 g of francium in the whole of the Earth's crust. In the 1930s it was the turn of Fred Allison from the Alabama Polytechnic ...