title: Recent great impact by an Isotope Separator On-Line (ISOL) in nuclear and radiochemistry.
abstract: On April 9 2015, the Letter article titled "Measurement of the first ionization potential of lawrencium, element 103" is now published at News and Views on Nature (2015) which has been performed by our remarkably Japanese colleagues of nuclear and radiochemistry at JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency). In this review, the author will state that the isotope separator on-line (ISOL) our regularly used, one of mass separation techniques, with a thermal surface ionization makes possible for determining the ionization potential of lawrencium based on the fruitful fundations of developing the ISOL system until now and also ever studying searches for unknown nuclei and these nuclear decay properties around actinide region in the past 20 years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Science and Technology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School.
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakama
mesh_terms: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007554:Isotopes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007564:Japan; D007852:Lawrencium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends; D011854:Radiochemistry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends
chemical_list: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements; D007554:Isotopes; D007852:Lawrencium