July • 2010

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Of the 118 known elements included in the Periodic Table, 16 were discovered at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They include berkelium (Bk), discovered in 1949; californium (Cf), discovered in 1950; lawrencium (Lr), discovered in 1961 and named for lab founder and Nobel physicist Ernest O. Lawrence; and seaborgium (Sg), discovered in 1974 and named after the Nobel chemist Glenn Seaborg who was involved with the discovery of many of these elements.

UC Press publishes tell-all Twain autobiography

The University of California Press will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Mark Twain with the first publication of his entire, uncensored autobiography.

Before the irascible Twain died in 1910, he left instructions that his life story remain unpublished for 100 years so he would be free to speak his mind. The time has arrived to unleash his tome on the world.

Harriet Elinor Smith, of the Mark Twain Project, edited the autobiography. Housed at UC Berkeley, the project is the largest collection of Twain writings and archival materials in the world.

The London Times called the publication of the autobiography “unparalleled in the history of literature.”

The 743-page, hardcover Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume I, The Complete and Authoritative Edition will be available in November. Two more volumes are planned for a total of a reported 500,000 words.

Order the book directly from UC Press.

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